366 Notes and Gleanings. 



Class IV.: — 



Best red grape for the table, — the Delavyare ; Ryckinan, Day, & Co. 



Best black grape for the table, — the Eumelan ; Hasbrouck & Bushnell. 



Best white grape for the table, — the Rebecca; William Haskins. 



Best red grape for wine, — the lona ; Ryckman, Day, & Co. 



Best black grape for wine, — the Ives Seedling ; C. H. Mottier. 



Best new red seedling, — the Walter ; Ferris & Caywood. 



Best new black seedling, — the Eumelan ; Hasbrouck & Bushnell. 



Best new white seedling, — the Croton ; Stephen W. Underbill, Croton 

 Point, N.Y. 



Class V. — Fruit on Cane : — 



Best display of Isabellas on cane ; C. Sexauer, Erie, Penn. 



Best display of Delawares on cane ; C. Leet, Moreheadvilie, Penn. 



Fine display of Walters on cane ; Ferris and Caywood. 



Class VI.— Dry White Wines : — 



Isabella. — ist. South-shore Wine Company ; 2d. Ryckman, Day, & Co. 



Catawba. — ist. South-shore Wine Company ; 2d. Ryckman, Day, & Co. 



Delaware. — ist. South-shore Wine Company ; 2d. Ryckman, Day, & Co. 



Diana. — ist. Ryckman, Day, & Co. [The committee in their report 

 speak of this sample of wine as entitled to special mention for its excel- 

 lence.] 



Hartford Prolific. — ist. South-shore Wine Company. 



Concord. — ist. E. A. Thompson, Cincinnati, O. 



Zona. — 1st. South-shore Wine Company; 2d. Ryckman, Day, & Co. 



Class VII. — Dry Red Wines : — 



Ives Seedling. ^ i?,\.. South-shore Wine Company; 2d. E. A. Thompson, 

 Cincinnati, O. 



Clinton. — ist. Ryckman, Day, & Co. ; 2i. South-shore Wine Company. 



Concord. — ist. South-shore Wine Company. 



Oporto {'' Erie-County Port"). — ist. W. King, Erie, Penn. 



Class VIII. — Sparkling Wines : — 



Catawba. — ist and 2d. South-shore Wine Company. 



Isabella. — 1st. Ryckman, Day, & Co. 



From Mixed Grapes. — ist. Ryckman, Day, & Co., for the " Diamond Wed- 

 ding." 



Class IX. — Non-enumerated Articles : — 



Grape-Boxes. — Manton & Noble, Fredonia, N.Y. 



The Vine-Lock. — A substitute for tying in attaching the vines to the trellis- 

 wire. A special diploma to E. F. Underbill, Brocton, N.Y. 



TwitchelVs Acidonteter. — h. special diploma awarded to Mr. Twitchell of 

 Cincinnati. This instrument is designed to test the amount of acids in liquids. 

 It is simple in its construction and operation, and shows upon a graduated scale 

 the number of parts in a thousand of acid. The action depends upon the 

 neutralization of the acid by the use of a given quantity of bi-carbonate of 

 soda, by which a definite volume of carbonic-acid gas is given off for every 

 equivalent of acid. This displaces a corresponding portion of water in a 



