1871 



THE WESTERN POMOLOGIST. 



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By Lake Shore Railroad, East, 298 tons. 



By Cincinnati and Sandusky Railroad, 785 " 

 By Baltimore and Ohio, (branch) South, 236 '• 



Total shipped by Railroad, 



1,319 tons. 



Those shipped East by Lake Shore Railroad were 

 for tabic use ; the remainder were used to make 

 wine. 



The crop this season has been uncommonly good, 

 but the vines are older, many of them just com- 

 mencing to bear, and, as a matter of course, the 

 product has been larger than ever before. It is es- 

 timated that over one hundred and fifty tons of 

 grapes are now rotting on the vines within twenty 

 miles of here for want of hands to pick them. A 

 much larger yield may be expected next year, when 

 the growers and manufacturers will both be better 

 prepared. 



THE WINE CROP OF FRjVNCE. 



Large as the figures that I have given in the 

 above may seem when viewed alone, they are small 

 in comparison with the wine statistics of Prance. 

 In 1869 there were over five millons of acres of land 

 in France devoted to the cultivation of the grape, 

 and the wine presses of the Empire produced over 

 eight hundred million gallons of wine, valued at 

 about eighty-three millions of dollars. The yield 

 of some of the best French vineyards is over four 

 hundred gallons per acre. 



It seems fortunate that now, when our foreign 

 wine supplies are cut off, the American wine grow- 

 er comes forward to fill the vacancy. — Wi)ie n/ul 

 Fruit Reporter. 



Grafting in tlie Bark. 



Wc promised our readers last summer, that we 

 would report on the success of a new process of 

 grafting, which we, at least, tried for the first time 

 on the vine, although we had often practiced it on 

 fruit trees. It is crown grafting, or grafting in, or 

 rather under the bark. 



We were detained by press of work last spring 

 from cleft grafting, at the usual time, which is the 

 latter part of March. When we tried to do it in 

 May, the vines bled profusely, and the bark slipped 

 easily, as well from the stock as from the scion, 

 which made the operation both disagreeable and 

 difficult. The thought struck us, " Why should 

 not vines grow, grafted under the bark at the prop- 

 er season, as well as fruit trees ? " and we forth- 

 with tried the experiment. We cut our scion with 

 a long sloping cut on one side, so that the inner or 

 wood side presented a smooth or flat surface, ta- 

 pering gradually to the bark. We then cut the 

 stock off square a few inches below the surface of 

 the ground, made a perpendicular incision in the 

 bark, as in budding, and lifting the bark slightly. 



we pushed the scion, with its flat side towards the 

 wood, down under the bark. If the stock is large, 

 two scions may bo inserted, if small, one will be 

 suflieient. We then bandaged tightly and smooth- 

 ly with basswood bark, and filled up with ground 

 around and over it, filling up to the top of the 

 .scion. 



The success was very gratifying, enough to con- 

 vince us that it is a surer, as well as an easier pro- 

 cess than cleft grafting. The scions should be kept 

 in a cool place, and as dormant as possible for this 

 process, and the operation may then be performed 

 with safety, even as late as June. Of course the 

 bark must part readily from the stock when it is 

 done. — Grape Oitltun$t. 



Grapes in Oregon. 



By a. R. Shiplbt, OiWEoo, Obeoon. 



Ed. Pomologist: For years we had no 

 grapes in Oregon except the Los Angelos, Isabella, 

 and Catawba, and even the cultivation of these was 

 not very well understood. They failed to ripen ex- 

 cept in favorable seasons and locations, and when 

 they did ripen they were sour compared with the 

 sweet grapes from California. So the people gen- 

 erally came to the conclusion that Oregon was not 

 a good country for grapes, and but few were plan- 

 ted. But in the course of time varieties of the ear- 

 lier foreign grapes were brought to the country, 

 and were found to do well. The Delaware, Con- 

 cord, Hartford Prolific, Allen's Hybrid, and others 

 of the natives were tried and were found to succeed, 

 ripening their friiit early, and all without the slight- 

 est symptom of disease. Since then the planting of 

 vines has increased from year to year, tiU now al- 

 most everybody wants to plant a few yines. At 

 our last State Fair some 50 varieties were exhibit- 

 ed, all well ripened, and of unsurpassed flavor and 

 size. Owing to our cooler climate our grapes are 

 not as sweet as the same varieties raised in Califor- 

 nia, but they are higher flavored, and have a great 

 deal more character. 



Cropping Vineyards IVltli Clover. 



It would seem that there must be some progress 

 in the art of grape culture in this country, judging 

 by the number of new ideas that arc advanced, and 

 new modes of practice adopted each year. But 

 unfortunately we all find, as our experience ad- 

 vances, we have to unlearn much that we supposed 

 to be true knowledge, and those who should be our 

 teachers are painfully conscious of their own want 

 of knowledge on the subject. 



At the meeting of the Ohio Horticultural Society, 

 for the inspection of vineyards, at Vermillion, last 

 August, much interest was manifested by the large 

 party of visitors, on finding several instances where 



