NINE] TONS OF GRAPES 
remarkable productions, Moore’s Early and Dia- 
mond. 
Looking over select lists of grapes, I often won- 
der if we hopelessly differ in our tastes, or if those 
who make the lists have ever.tasted the grapes they 
advertise so confidently. I have grown eighty vari- 
eties, besides a large number of seedlings of my 
own, and I am constantly compelled to protest 
against the dissemination of many of those that are 
sent out as of the highest quality. 
If set down to the selection of half a dozen best 
grapes, I should begin with Worden, black; Herbert, 
black; Niagara, white; Hayes, white; Eldorado, 
white; Brighton, red; and Lindley, red. Already I 
am running over my number, yet am loth to leave 
out Goertner. Lady is as good a white grape as has 
yet been produced, and it is the earliest of all good 
sorts, but with me it bears very few and poor clus- 
ters. I think the difficulty is largely due to lack of 
self-pollenization. I have not found it easy to sup- 
ply this lack. Jefferson should come into the list 
of prime sorts for a homestead as far north as South- 
ern New York. It does not always ripen in this 
latitude, although the vine and fruit are perfectly 
hardy. In all the list of excellent varieties the two 
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