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good market grape as the skin is too tender for shipping. The 

 Campbell's Early is considered an early grape; it colors up very 

 quickly but it is not sweet enough for a popular grape. To be 

 readily salable a grape must be sweet. The Green Mountain is 

 an excellent early white grape and there is nothing better for a 

 white variety than the Moore's Diamond. 



jNIr. Cook said that the location of a vineyard is very important. 

 Select a place with a good air drainage as well as a good water 

 drainage. A rocky hill with a south or southeast exposure, not 

 northeast, is an especially good location, because less subject to 

 frost. Sandy soil is very good but it is more likely to be found in a 

 flat country. The grape needs potash and phosphates; too much 

 nitrogen or nitrate of soda is not good for it. 



William C. Strong referred to the subject of bud variation. He 

 said that the bud of a Bartlett pear produced a Bartlett pear and 

 he asked the question if it was the same with the grape. The 

 King grape, recently exhibited at the Jamestown Exposition, is 

 said to be a bud variation of the Concord. He remarked there 

 was a good deal to be said on both sides of this question. 



INIr. Wheeler stated that the bud often produced a different 

 strain. Buds of Baldwin apples in one section would be different 

 from those in another section. The Gravenstein apple is almost 

 perfectly red in one place and in another it might be striped, and 

 these two grafted would produce a better red variety. He said 

 it was the same with the grape. 



Joseph S. Chase of INIalden said he had grown some twenty 

 varieties of grapes for twenty years. His method was to grow 

 them in rows eight feet apart and eight feet in the row. He advised 

 growing on a hillside and would not attempt to grow grapes on 

 flat land. It was not easy to graft the grape. 



Dr. C. E. Wing stated that he had cultivated sixty varieties of 

 grapes and in regard to the best varieties he said it was really a 

 matter of taste. Personally he considered the Brighton the best 

 variety. He said that the ^loore's Diamond is a good white grape 

 but the Green Mountain was much earlier. He considered the 

 Lindley next to the Brighton and the Worden better than the 

 Concord in flavor. 



]\Ir. Chase remarked that the Brighton should be eaten on the 

 vine for it flats down soon after it is picked. 



