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ANNALS OF HORTICULTURE. 



The yield of grapes, as compared with an average full 

 crop, is estimated as follows in the November statistics of the 

 Department of Agriculture : 





1892. 



1893. 



Tennessee, 



65 



65 



TVT nine 



96 



101 



"West "Virginia, 



85 



82 



94 



101 



K^entucky , 



79 





"Vermont 



93 



82 



Ohio 



71 



91 



[Massachusetts, 



90 



91 



Ti/f inliicmn 



88 



101 



T?Vir"»rlp» Tclanrl 



88 



92 



Indiana, 



80 



Jo 



Connecticut 



86 



87 



Illinois 



68 



86 



!New York 

 New Jersey , 



82 



99 



AVi scon sin 



80 



97 



85 



102 



Minnesota, 



80 



92 



Pennsylvania, 



88 



94 



Iowa, 



82 



101 



Delaware, 



95 



100 



Missouri, 



71 



77 



Maryland, 



80 



86 



Kansas, 



79 



70 



Virginia, 

 North Carolina, 



83 



79 



Nebraska, 



82 



73 



83 



90 



Colorado, 



75 



62 



South Carolina, 



80 



87 



New Mexico, 



90 



79 



Georgia, 



91 



86 



Arizona, 





75 



Florida, 



90 



100 



Utah, 



82 



91 



Alabama, 



92 



72 



Nevada, 





100 



Mississippi, 



75 



70 



Idaho, 





96 



Louisiana, 



90 



83 



Washington, 



95 



85 



Texas, 



81 



78 



Oregon, 

 California, 



95 



83 



Arkansas, 



67 



70 



60 



100 



On the whole, the yield was considerably above that of 

 1892, particularly in the three leading grape-growing States, 

 California, New York and Ohio. 



The Grape Interests of Neiv York may be divided into three 

 great divisions, the Chautauqua district facing Lake Erie, the 

 interior lake region about Keuka, Seneca and Cayuga lakes, 

 and the Hudson River district. The following sketch of the 

 Chautauqua district, which is the most recent in development 

 of the three, is part of a contribution to the -Country Gentle- 

 man by L. J. Vance : "According to an actual canvass made 

 in March, 1893, there are 17,624 acres of bearing grapevines 

 in the entire belt, and 7,500 acres of non-bearing vines, a 

 total of 25,124 acres. In Chautauqua county alone the vine- 

 yards cover 14,600 acres. Thus, the Chautauqua grape belt is, 

 perhaps, the largest single strip of territory devoted to the cul- 

 ture of grapes to be found in the United States. It contains 

 10,000 more acres of vineyards than the Hudson river district, 

 and about 2,500 more acres than the great Keuka and Seneca 

 lake district. It about equals the area of the greatest grape- 

 growing county of California — Sonoma, which, according to the 

 last census, had 26,500 acres of vineyard land. Next to that 

 comes Los Angeles county with 22,500 acres of bearing and 

 non-bearing vines. So that, if we take the Chautauqua and 

 Lake Erie grape belt as a whole, as it runs from Brocton, 

 New York, to Cleveland, Ohio, it is one of the greatest grape- 

 growing districts in this country, or in the world. 



"The usual yield of grapes per acre is from one and a half to 

 two tons. The crop this year is above the average, but not up 



