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no paper or cotton protection between the bunches. In 

 this manner, great quantities are sent to the Atlantic 

 cities from a distance of six to eight hundred miles inte- 

 rior; and they generally arrive in good order. Some 

 kinds, of course, are unsuited for such transit. In my 

 own experience, a temporary advantage has resulted to 

 those living near a market from this fact. The Hartford 

 Prolific is the earliest market-grape ; but, as it is liable to 

 drop if carried to a distance, those who cultivate it in the 

 vicinity of cities enter the market without any competi- 

 tion from the interior. The result has been, up to this 

 time, that, when the average wholesale price of grapes has 

 not exceeded fifteen dollars per hundred pounds, the 

 Hartford, which is an inferior fruit, has sold for twenty 

 dollars. As earlier and better kinds are introduced, this 

 condition will cease. 



AMOTTNT PEB ACRE. 



Very extravagant impressions are received by many as 

 regards the profit of grape-growing and the annual pro- 

 duct per acre. I have under my eye a recent estimate 

 made in " The New- York Tribune," in which it is shown 

 that it is an easy matter to produce ten tons of grapes 



