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rieties. The remaining forty per cent, are not fruitful unless pollenized by other 

 sorts, and should be planted adjacent to strong pollen-bearing sorts that flower 

 at the same time. 



12. Where the above-mentioned self-sterile varieties are pollenized by other 

 sorts, the variety furnishing the pollen apparently has nothing to do with de- 

 termining the quality of the fruit thus produced. 



About 150 varieties were reported upon as to vigor, health of vine, color and 

 quality of fruit, date of blooming and ripening, etc. The time of ripening of the 

 various sorts extended from August 7, when the Early Ohio, a grape of very poor 

 quality, ripened, to September 20, when the Cunningham was ready for market. 

 Champion, another poor grape, ripened August 9, and Green Mountain, a white 

 grape of good quality, ripened August 10. Moore's Early, the standard early 

 market grape, ripened August 13. The bulletin, under the head of "Varieties 

 to Plant," has comments on the vigor and health of the vines of the varieties 

 tested, with notes on the quality of fruit. 



The varieties most largely grown for profit in this state, by those who depend 

 upon shipping to supply the ordinary demand, are Moore's Early, Worden, and 

 Concord. These standard sorts have been found to succeed well on the station 

 grounds. 



The following ripened ahead of Moore's Early, and are found to succeed well 

 here: Early Ohio, Champion, Hartford, Green Mountain, Jewel and Aminia, ma- 

 turing in the order named. 



The best table grapes, combining fine quality with at least a fair vigor and 

 productiveness, are : Green Mountain, New Haven, Aminia, Brighton, Moore's 

 Early, Norfolk, Massasoit, Ideal, Diamond, Barry, Rommel, Woodruff Red (finer 

 in appearance than in quality), Lindley, Challenge, Norton, Rochester, Jeffer- 

 son, Agawam, Poughkeepsie Red, Brilliant and Berckman's, ripening in the 

 order named. 



Sacking grapes just after the fruit is fairly set, when grapes are about as large 

 as pin heads, improves the quality of some varieties, protects the fruit from rot 

 and insects, and makes the skin of the berry more tender. Self -fertile varieties 

 may be sacked before the bloom opens, and the Green Mountain improved won- 

 derfully in quality when so treated. Although an early variety, where the Green 

 Mountain was sacked before the bloom opened, the fruit remained on clusters 

 till late in September. 



Concluding the subject of varieties, the bulletin says : 



We have a large number of good varieties of American grapes. Different 

 varieties are adapted to different purposes, as well as to different soils, localities, 

 and conditions. The Bushberg (Mo.) catalogue describes 500 varieties, from 

 which scores of kinds may be selected, any one of which may be better suited to 

 some given purpose than is even the cosmopolitan Concord or any other grape. 

 Every year new varieties appear. Very rapid strides are now being made in the 

 way of adapting these varieties to special purposes. The above facts are well 

 known to every grape grower. It is time the public should discover that there 

 are now many American varieties about equal in quality to the best European or 

 California grapes. Why should Missouri [or Kansas] continue to pay ten or 

 twenty cents per pound for California grapes when our home-grown product 

 sells for two or three cents a pound? In Aminia, Brighton, Lindley, Brilliant, 

 Goethe, and many other sorts, we have varieties that are certainly as good as 

 the California product, picked green and shipped half way across the continent. 



The present rapid introduction of new varieties adapted to special purposes 

 extends the grape season over a longer period, and adapts the grape to a greater 



