136 AMERICAN GRAPE GROWING 



creased price more than compeiasating for the reduced 

 amount of the crop. 



The freeze of May 13, 1895, was wholly exceptional, 

 nothing like it having occurred in thirty-six years. 

 The local meteorological conditions were overcome by 

 influences which extended over a large area, both east 

 and west. Yet severe as was the freeze, and although 

 the grapevines were just patting out their fruit buds, 

 they escaped with less damage than many other fruits, 

 forest trees, or even meadows. Dwarf pear trees were, 

 in some cases, frozen dead within fifty feet of Concord 

 grapevines, which survived and bore nearly a full crop 

 of fruit. 



