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growth is quite thrifty. Bjrries large and bunches 

 loose. We failed to see sufficient points of merit in 

 them to recommend them for the general grower. 



Jessica has made a weak growth. This is an early 

 white grape, ripening a few days after Green Mountain ; 

 bunch small ; berry sweet and seedy. The Green 

 Mountain is worth a number of sorts like the Jessica 



Ives ripens rather late, and while an abomination 

 when first colored, becomes quite good when fully ripe. 

 It is a strong grower, of the Concord type. 



lotta appears to be a somewhat weak thing, but fairly 

 productive. The bunches are of good size and hand- 

 some. It ripened too late to give us much of a chance 

 to test its quality. 



Lady gives us handsome bunches of superior quality, 

 ripening toward end of September, but the growth is 

 weak and the vine not productive enough. 



Lady Washington, a fair grower, is lacking in produc- 

 tiveness. Berry of fair size, but bunch smallish and 

 rather loose. 



Lindley is large in cane, bunch and berry. Quality 

 good, it is one of the best of Rogers' hybrids. 



Martha made a good growth and a fair crop. The 

 bunches are rather small, but the berries have some- 

 what the appearance of the Niagara. Little fault can 

 be found with its quality. 



Massasoit pleases us, being satisfactory in growth and 

 productiveness. Clusters are of fair size, berries large, 

 and the quality suits us. 



Norton's Virginia, a thrifty grower, is the well-known 

 southern wine grape, producing a heavy crop of its 

 smallish black clusters, but too late for this climate. 



Moore's Early is good and sweet, the earliest good 

 sort of the Concord type, but not productive enough 

 for market purposes. 



Marion, a thrifty grower and heavy cropper, is too 

 late for us. Small in bunch and berry, the former 

 being very compact. 



Moyer appears to be a week or ten days earlier than 

 Delaware. The berries are of honeyed sweetness 

 almost as soon as they begin to color. Unfortunately 

 the vine lacks thrift and productiveness, and the 

 bunches are unreasonably small. 



Moore' s Diamond gives us only moderate growth and 

 productiveness. The bunches are small ; the berries 

 good sized, but of inferior qdality. 



Montefiore is probably a good black, and Riesling a 

 good white wine grape. 



Niagara must be considered the great grape for this 

 county, its own home ; unsurpassed as a market grape, 

 of thriftiest growth, and productive almost to a fault. 

 It outyields even the Concord. Finer looking clusters 

 than our Niagaras, when fully ripe, will not be found 

 very easily. The berries then appear almost as golden 

 as the Pocklingtons. As to quality, we will agree not 

 to complain if we always have as good grapes as the 

 Niagara on its native heath. 



N'oah is thrifty, quite productive, of good quality — in 

 some respects resembling Niagara, but rather later. 



Oneida., a weak grower, gives us small bunches and 

 large greenish-red berries of fairly good quality, 



Poeklington produces a good crop of small golden 

 bunches, ripening rather late. The berries unfortu- 

 nately are badly spotted with russet, and have a little 

 too much of the well-known ' ' native aroma. " 



Prentiss is not thrifty, and bears but little fruit, but 

 this is of quite good quality. 



Triumph bears a large crop of sour fruit. We see no 

 good in it. 



Telegraph was allowed to overbear, hence fruit did 

 not come to maturity. 



Warden is one of our very choicest sorts. It resem- 

 bles Concord, but is somewhat earlier, sweeter and 

 ju st as productive. Perhaps it adheres less firmly to 

 the stem. 



We have many other varieties. Some of them were 

 planted a year later, and may be expected to bear next 

 year ; others, set out at the first planting in 1889, have 

 made so little growth that they were not large enough 

 to bear this year. 



Our favorites — the ones we would plant for home use, 

 are thefollowing : Green Mountain, Eldorado, Niagara 

 (white) ; Brighton, Delaware, Dracut Amber, Massa- 

 soit (red) ; Worden and Concord (black). 



La Sallc-on-tlie-Niagara . 



THE MOSS-ROSE. 



{'Translation. ) 



The Angel of the Flowers one day 

 "Beneath a rose-tree sleeping lay — 

 That spirit to whose charge 't is given 

 To bathe young buds in dews of heaven. 

 Awaking from his light repose, 

 The angel whispered to the rose : 

 " O fondest object of my care, 

 Still fairest found where all are fair, 

 For the sweet shade thou giv'st to me 

 Ask what thou wilt — 't is granted thee." 



'^Then," said the rose, with deepened glow, 

 "On me another grace bestow." 

 The spirit paused, in silent thought — 

 What grace was there that flower had not ? 

 ' T was hut a moment ; o'er the rose 

 A veil of moss the angel throws. 

 And, robed in nature's simplest weed, 

 Could there a flower that rose exceed ? 



— Krummacher. 



