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Tl»e Vineyard in November. 
Experience witll ltlack-rot. 
At this time the grape harvest is over and 
it sometimes seems as though there was 
nothing further to be done until spring. 
This, however, is a mistake, for much work 
may now be done that cold weather will 
interfere with when December comes. 
There are some vineyardists who say that 
if one wants to trim for wood, to do it in 
the fall, but if for fruit, in the spring. This 
is all bosh, so far as my experience goes, 
for my pruning is all done in the fall and 
has been for twenty years, with never 
a lack of productiveness. The only 
trouble is that the vines bear too much even 
when pruned back pretty severely. The 
first thing to be done is t<> go through the 
vineyard clipping off all the unripe wood 
and tendrils, and to cut all loose from the 
wires: also cut out the old stubs if there are 
any and the old canes upon which the 
wood for propagating is not wanted. Re- 
move the loose bark and carry all out of the 
vineyard and put on aheap. Then dig holes 
over a foot deep and with a hoe scrape all 
the rotten grapes into them, being sure to 
cover sufficiently deep that the cultivator or 
plow will not stir them up. If this is care- 
fully done there will be a much better 
chance of escaping the rot the following 
season. 
The wood that is to be made into cuttings 
should now be taken off, pruning as it is in- 
tended the vines shall be next summer. 
Where sufficient young canes have been 
grown to bear the next crop, let them remain 
long enough to reach the top wire; of course 
those carried up at an angle must be left 
longer than the ones taken straight up. Be 
sure to leave spurs with a few good eyes at 
suitable places for the canes next season, 
which are to grow for fruiting the year af- 
ter. Some varieties seem to bear better 
from short spurs on old canes, in which case 
some old canes may be left and spurred 
back to two or three eyes. Norton andCynth- 
iana are of this class. In pruning the 
Concord, however, young canes are best, 
and if the laterals are strong, from having 
been pinched at the proper time they should 
be left with two or three eyes, which will 
give the finest bunches of fruit and in many 
instances, will leave the bud at the base of 
the lateral (which is in ordinary cases the 
one to grow and bear fruit), unmoved. 
If the vines when cut loose from the wares 
fall to the ground so much the better. In 
fact it is a necessity in the North even with 
the hardiest varieties, and even hero no hy- 
brid is safe when exposed to the winter on 
the trellis. It is not necessary to lay them 
down before December and we will speak 
of the mode of protection later. Just now 
the Norton grapes are being gathered for 
wine; the wane-makers here leave the grapes 
on the vines later than formerly, as by so 
doing they get a heavier must. In spite of 
all the rot there seems to be sufficient Nor- 
tons to supply the demand. Picked on a 
clear, dry day, laid in shallow’ boxes, and 
put in a dry cellar, Norton grapes may be 
kept the greater part of the winter. — S. M. 
On my grounds the rot was severe at the 
beginning of the season but did not prove so 
disastrous as I expected. I will give herewith 
a list showing the proportion of rot to each 
variety under equal conditions. It is some- 
what singular that, out of so large a num- 
ber, one single variety should be entirely 
exempt, and which has always been so. 
The two vines I have of it are in different 
parts of the vineyard and each surrounded 
with the worst kind of rot. Don’t write to 
me for vines of this for I have none to sell. 
It was sent to me by Dr. Wiley long ago 
and had not been named. If my memory 
serves me aright it is a cross between Per- 
kins and Delaware. That there is Delaware 
in it there is no mistake, for the vine and 
leaf resemble it closely, and the fruit is 
nearly if not quite equal to that variety but 
the berries are almost twice as large. 
Varieties. 
Percent- 
age of 
Amber Queen 
rot. 
100 
Agawam 
100 
August Giant 
100 
Brighton 
100 
Bacchus 
100 
Black Hermione 
25 
Concord 
75 
Clinton 
85 
Cvnthiana 
10 
Defiance 
85 
Dr. Wiley 
000 
Eva 
80 
Early Victor 
50 
Elvira 
10 
Goethe 
80 
Garber 
10 
Irving 
no 
Iowa Excelsior 
90 .. .. 
Jefferson 
95 
Massasoit 
80 
Martha 
80 
Marsala 
5 
Moore’s Early 
60 
Moore’s Diamond 
100 
Norton 
10 
Othello 
100 
Peter Wilev 
100 
Talman 
50 
Triumph 
50 
White Hermione 
50 
Si 
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Itemarks. 
Those varieties 
with a very small 
percentage of rot 
would be entirely 
free. I think, if 
planted away from 
the rotting kinds. 
crape.] 
This is our best hl’k 
A tine grape in all 
respects, and the 
only one entirely 
free from rot. 
This is one of the 
earliest black.] 
A splendid red 
grape when we can 
get it. 
Heretofore this was 
exempt] 
Samuel Miller. 
Tlie Worden Grape. 
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so left to work its own way in the world 
and attain fame by force of its own actual 
merit than has the Worden. And yet in a 
very honest and modest way it is surely 
reaching the goal and every year becoming 
more popular. It resembles the Concord so 
much, not only in wood and leaf but also 
in shape and color of berry, that undoubt- 
edly thousands of Concord vines have been 
sold for it and there are many people to- 
day who, thinking they have it, do not 
know v hat a Worden grape is. It differs 
from the Concord, and is superior to it, in 
earliness of ripening and quality, at the 
same time possessing all the other excellen- 
cies of the Concord, being equally hardy and 
productive. It ripens from ten days to two 
weeks earlier and in flavor is very full and 
satisfactory with a much more melting 
pul]). The cottager who wants a grape 
vine to plant ah: tit his house or shade his 
arbor cannot do better than take the Wor- 
den but let him be sure he gets it and not 
Concord in its stead. Its abundant and 
healthy foliage makes it one of the finest 
and most beautiful screens for this purpose. 
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