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R. M. KBLLOGG'S GREAT CROPS. 
culture in this country. It succeeds every- 
where a grape can be grown. It is yet the 
leading market variety and too well known 
to need description, but in many localities is 
giving way to the 
Warden, which I believe is the richest and 
sweetest black grape grown in this country. 
Perfectly hardy, fully aa productive as Con- 
cord, larger berry and cluster, and a week 
or ten days earlier. They are all gone before 
Concord arrives. 
Hosford'n Mammoth, originated by Geo. 
Hosford of this city, is surely the largest and 
one of the finest hardy black grapes yet 
introduced. Many of the berries are a full 
inch in diameter, and clusters immense. It 
ripens with the Concord. It is a great acquisi- 
tion and everyone should grow it. 
Moore's Early is one of the best extra early 
grapes, ripening fully two weeks ahead of Con- 
cord. The berry is very large, entirely hardy 
and on rich soil very productive. It is generally 
all gone before Worden comes in. 
Talman (or Champion) is a prolific and 
protitable extra early market grape, ripens 
about the time of Moore's Early. Plesh sweet, 
juicy, and a rank grower. Healthy, hardy and 
vigorous. 
The Eaton, a large and magnificent grape, 
a seedling of the Concord and npens about the 
same time. Much larger iu berry and cluster 
and less foxy. Is perfectly hardy and very 
productive. Its great size will make it desira- 
ble for the market. 
Red Grapes. 
Wyomin</ Red. Vine very hardy, healthy 
and robust, with thick leathery foliage; color 
of berry, similar to Delaware, but brighter, 
being one of the most beautiful of the amber 
or red grapes, and in size nearly double that 
of Delaware; flesh, tender, juicy, sweet, with 
a strong native aroma; ripens before Delaware, 
and is a valuable market grape. 
Moyer is comparatively new, and resembles 
the Delaware in many points; bunch and berry 
are a little larger; ripens about the same time. 
Woodruff Red. A new grape of ironclad 
hardiness. A rank grower and very healthy. 
The fruit is large in bunch and berry, attract- 
ive, shouldered, sweet and of fair quality, but 
somewhat foxy. Does not crack nor drop from 
stem. Desirable as a market variety where 
many others fail. 
Agawam has a fine large berry and bunch is 
of e.xcellent quality, having a flavor peculiarly 
its own. It has been kept in good condition 
till February and even to April and is especially 
valuable for this purpose. 
Delaware. The standard of all excellence 
in grapes. Ripens several days before the 
Concord. The bunch and berry are small, com- 
pact, flesh very juicy, very sweet and refresh- 
ing. Requires rich soil, good cultivation and 
close pruning. 
Vergennes originated in Vermont and proves 
entirely hardy. It is of good size, fine quality, 
quite productive and a very late keeper. It's a 
grand home berry as well as for market. 
White Grapes. 
Moore'x Diamond. New. Originated by 
Jacob Moore, of New York State, who also 
originated the Brighton. It is claimed to be a 
pure native, very vigorous and entirely freo 
from mildew; very hardy and extremely pro- 
lific; bunches very large and compact, berry- 
greenish white, tinged with yellow, about the 
size of Concords. In quality it is claimed to 
be superior to any other white grape of recent 
introduction, and ripens some three weeks 
before the Concord. 
The Niagara is one of the most popular 
white grapes ever introduced. It is surely a 
great acquisition and is being more generally 
planted than any other. The clusters are of 
immense size and large berry, very productive, 
and the vine of iron-clad hardiness. Every- 
one should plant this grape; it will surely 
surprise you. 
How to Eat Grapes. 
The man who holds the grape between his 
thumb and finger and squeezes or shoots the 
pulp into his throat does not know how to 
enjoy fruit, and is not likely to appreciate the 
gopd qualities of a fine grape. Let the berries 
follow' each other in the mouth in rapid succes- 
sion until three or four are taken, while with 
each insertion the teeth are brought together 
upon the seeds without breaking them. The 
acid of the pulp is thus freed to mingle with 
saccharine juice next the skin and a slight 
manipulation by the tongue separates the seeds 
and skin from the delicious vinous juices; after 
this has tickled the palate skin and seeds may 
be ejected together. Close to the skin lies » 
large part of the good fiavor of the grape. — 
Rural New Yorker. 
lONlK 
is a beautiful little city of six thousand inhabitants, sit- 
uated on (Jrand liiver. at thu crossing of the Detroit, 
Hrand Haven & Milwavilcee and the Detroit, Lansing ana 
Northern railroads, with branch to Big Kai)id8 ; thua 
giving railroad facilities in five different directions. ^ Its 
manuFacturinK interests are ciuite extensive. Tlie Cap- 
ital WiiKon Works, with a capital of $150,0(10.00, have 
been built within the past year and are now employing a 
large force of men. The Ionia Furniture Company has a 
capital of $60,000 00 and extensive buildings equipped 
with the most perfect machinery known to the business. 
The Michigan Clothing Co., capital $50,000.00, employs 
about 125 hands and does a large business, as well as the 
Ionia Overall Co., which employs about 40 hands. There- 
are .several other important factories. The State House 
of Correction and Asylum for Criminal Insane, and shops 
and round honse of the D., L. & N. railroad give employ- 
ment to a large force. There are tw<) daily papers and 
three weeklies, four banks, and all the churches and 
school advantages enjoyed by any city in the state. The 
Poucher Business College affords advantages found in 
but few institntione of the kind, and during the coming 
year will make extensive improvements in the way of 
new buildings and complele fixtures for demonstrating^ 
the work. Ionia excels especially in fruit growing; few 
cities enjoy so bounteons a supply of all kinds throngh- 
I out the entire season. 
