Vili AMERICAN. HOMES AND GARDENS April, rg12 
GRAPES FOR A SMALL COUNTRY 
TT HOME 
By E. P. POWELL 
Ha are FTER the apple, which needs too 
a zs] / much room for our smaller home- 
steads, there is no fruit that is so in- 
Se dispensable as the grape. You can grow 
ns N Vii \ nothing else in such quantities in a small 
ff My, iat space, nor is there anything else more 
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mn wholesome and food-full. It is our veg- 
etable beefsteak. I have over one hun- 
D With th dred varieties, and am interested in every 
A Ww new candidate. I think that twenty of these 
Oo ay 1 e | | could be selected as indispensable for a 
large country home. I will divide this list 
Tower | in two, and offer ten, such as I believe will 
be easily cultivated and find room on a 
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Get all the conveniences and comforts of small homestead of five acres. Supposing 
water without that high and perhaps danger- that we are located as far north as Massa- 
ous tower. Have more space to beautify chusetts or Central New York or Northern 
THE KITCHEN your grounds. Put the water supply system Ohio, the list must be tolerably hardy. In 
out of sight. Install a fact, I will not offer you a single grape 
i} | that needs to be covered during the Win- 
ter, although it compels me to leave out 
tome fae : 
@ DOUGLAS @ | | the one kind that I place ahead of all 
PNEUTANK SYSTEM others, the Iona. Its best rival, the Jef- 
ferson, must also be left for those who 
: vas garden south of the New York line. Of 
as ote you pert gig ates eee black grapes, I place unhesitatingly at the 
oye Oo Rees e al d paar tes Cc = be front these three: Moore’s Early, Worden, 
So ee ee ae : a and Herbert. Moore’s Early gives enor- 
— é located in a Fie a pea house. Is always mous crops, after the vine is well grown, 
SSE SSE aa - enna eet a) ey uipers hem perfectly in ie northern lati- 
LE en cats ne Douglas ystem consists 0 | tudes as far as Canada, and gives us a most 
f an ae et Be ene oe gasoline or electric delicious berry in large bunches. In some 
Bee ee et sections Campbell’s Early is the mate or 
rival; with me Moore’s is best. Worden 
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We guarantee this system for absolute reliability 
and thorough durability. Any part found defective 
within five years of installation will be replaced by is a superb grape of the Concord family, 
us free of charge. only immensely better, while the vine is 
The particular stvle shown here is a direct-connected gasoline outfit. : vigorous, productive and hardy. Herbert 
It delivers 600 ,alions of water an hour, and will run all day lene ona 1S hardy, but fails at one point ; it does not 
rasoli an run a atically if electric s a . . 
gallon of gasoline. Can run automatically if electric current 1s pe pollenize itself, Arnal meee fs he grown 
Expert engineers, skilled workmen, and high grade materials make M A : ¥ 
the design and construction the standard of excellence. near Ivioores or some other grape that can 
a = furnish pollen. 
If you have a water supply problem, write us. Our 
IN —— nih engineering department is at all times ready to give I would select as my three indispensable 
you personal expert advice. red grapes for the north: Brighton, Lind- 
Ask for a catalog and full information. ley and Gaertner, or where good care is 
given, take Delaware. Below the New 
W & B DOUGLAS York line we have Jefferson and Catawba. 
: . This last is the great vineyard grape of 
180 William Street northern Ohio. The Brighton has large 
; F bunches of exceedingly rich berries, ripen- 
Middletown Connecticut ing very early, but not keeping for any 
length of time. It is delicious for about 
one month. Lindley is a rampant grower 
and gives superb fruit, only here again 
there is a lack of self-pollenization. Grow 
it near Moore’s Early. Gaertner is a de- 
licious grape, one of the best ever pro- 
duced. If you will grow these two last- 
named grapes over your buildings, always 
in company with a good pollenizer, and let 
them hang on until heavy frost, you will 
find out what a grape can be. 
Of white grapes I should select as requi- 
site to comfort and pleasure: Lady, Hayes 
and Niagara. This leaves out two or three 
close competitors, like Diamond and Cole- 
rain. McKinley I have not tested, but it is 
said to be a stronger grower than Niagara, 
and of remarkable quality. The Lady 
grape also needs pollenizing in order to get 
full crops, but it surely is a wonderful 
fruit. Eldorado is a good deal like it in 
color and quality. The Hayes grape is a 
very successful fruiter, and the quality is 
closely second to Lady. Niagara is pretty 
well known by everybody, and deserves 
everthing that can be said in its favor— 
only be sure that you get it dead ripe be- 
fore you undertake to eat it. It produces 
immense crops on thoroughly hardy vines. 
Diamond is one of the close competitors, 
and is popular and successful as far south 
at Middle Florida, as also are Niagara and 
Moore’s Early. Pocklington is another 
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