its hundred thousand readers, cast any ad¬ 
ditional light upon this question of grafting 
the vine ■which has been so long a subject of 
experiment and desire, but without suc¬ 
cess at all satisfactory, by any of the old 
methods? R . h> w 
Penn Van, N. Y. 
■\Vjc know that Mr. Wagener’s instru¬ 
ments are useful, especially to a novice in 
grafting. But it is not true that no praoti- 
GEAPE GROWING 
On the Borders of the Itonkit, Seneca nnd 
Canandaigua Lakes. 
This business, iike the magicians bean, 
has sprung Into existence and grown to vast 
proportions within a comparatively brief 
period, bounded since its first Ineipency, by 
the recollection of living witnesses, then of 
man & estate. Indeed, twenty years covers 
about the full period of efforts in vineyard 
culture. 
In 1804 it was estimated that within the 
vicinity, and on the borders of the Keuka or 
“ Crooked Lake,” there would be near four 
hundred acres of vineyard in bearing, and 
producing a crop of six huudred tons of 
grapes; sufficient, as it was thought, to over¬ 
whelm ail of the available resources for con¬ 
sumption of both city markets and the wine 
cellars; and, indeed, it did fairly overstock 
and glut them. 
The year 1870 will long be noted for both 
the extent to which the production had 
grown in u period of six years and also for I 
the perfection of the crops. Wines of that I 
vintage doubtless will rarely bo excelled 
from the same varieties of fruit. 
The year 1871, however, has excelled any 
and all others in the vastness of the crop, 
though in quality considerably short of that 
of 1870, yet a great, crop, and in quality a 
fail 1 average. 
The rapid increase of the production, and 
also of the sources of consumption, w ill be 
shown by the following estimates based 
upon good authority, and provi.-g that the I 
cultivation of the grape In this L te region 
already Is, and is to be, a very important 
interest. 
The crop of 1871 may be set down as not 
Keuka Lake and vicin- I 
A Beautiful \ ase*—We give an engr&v- 
mg of a beautiful vaHe which the Editor of 
The Garden, who saw it as shown, Bays con- 
Jonathan, Dominie, Tallman, 
Winesap, Rawles’ Janet, Ben 
Davis, Perry Russet, and Wil¬ 
low. For trial —Peach Pound 
Sweet, Clyde Beauty, Kentucky 
and Grimes’ Golden. 
Pears. — Bartlett, Seokel, 
Flemish Beauty, White Doy¬ 
enne, Beurre de Dijon and 
Duchesse de Angouleme. 
Strawberries. — For general 
cultivation, Metoalf’s Early, 
Green Proliflo, Wilson’s Albany. 
For trial, Charles Downing and 
Colfax. 
Raspberries. — Philadelphia, 
Purple Caul, Miami for general 
cultivation, and Lewis’ Ever- 
bearing aud Davidson’s Thorn¬ 
less for further trial. 
Grapes. — Concord, Clinton, 
Hartford Prolific, aud Delaware 
for general cultivation. Ives’ 
Seedling, Agawam, Martha and 
Salem for trial. 
Blackberries. — The Kitta- 
tinny was the only one recom¬ 
mended. 
vary i ng m uch from 
ity, 1 ,500 tons; Canandaigua Lake and vi¬ 
cinity, 2,000 tons; Seneca Lake (west side), 
1,000 tone—total, 10,500 tons. 
Of this, about one-third has been made 
into wine (the full capacity of our cellars), 
or will bo distilled; aud the balance, some 
seven thousand tons, has and must find 
consumption elsewhere, and mostly through 
POMOLOGICAL GOSSIP, 
W A. PEKN-HOUSE. 
tained in the center a good plant of Epipli- 
yllum truncatum surrounded by a ring of 
large Houeekek iSnnpervirum tabular 
forme) alternated with common Eteris ,w- 
rulata. Plants of the Epiphyllum trained 
as low pyramids are peculiarly suitable for 
vase decoration —indeed, it is doubtful if 
anything that blooms in summer would 
form so love// a subject for a sitting-room 
, , | J . - » ri : * J ‘- ’-** I'l VUUVOU u 
the city fruit markets. the Delaware on the Catawba; an 
From the abundance of the orop, and also Rural New-Yorker no 
of most other fruit8, the prices have netted Jra i >e Culturlst, gave his ructh< 
>-■ v... it u j, t „ tuLT. ssreasi 
crop is worth to the producers one million lowed his directions. Wehaveseei 
of dollars, as the product of from seven to m cnt» of his method from Chablj 
eight thousand acres of land, and much of other culturists of equal * 
it of . oliaracter forbidding the ordinary Z°y X>5 wXIto Tull 
pursuits of agriculture. Mr. Fuller's know ledge, nor wit 
There are two marked defects in the man- to disparage M r. Wagener’s 
agement and character of the viuevards of ^ut s * m P^y to show that anv one 
this locality. use a grafting knife, and will obt 
i mi.., f. . . . conditions laid down in pages 66- 
. * m Management consists, as 1 Grape Chlturist, may succeed with 
think, in allowing an over-crop of fruit to big it necessary to buy the right 
remain on the vines for want of will and 
courage to thin down to a condition that it 
may pertect and ripen early hi its season, 
instead of lingering into frosty nights and 
ungenial weather. 
2. The character or condition of a large 
majority of the early vineyards, consists in 
their having been set almost, entirely with 
the Catawba aud Isabella, both late varie¬ 
ties, and now being superseded by more de¬ 
sirable and profitable kinds. 
Now, as a large area of the land occupied 
as vineyard Is stocked with roots, well estab- 
seems a 
riety. The fruit is cone-shaped, of an ex¬ 
cellent flavor, the color bright crimson, 
bearing carriage better than any oi the 
favorite market sorts. It belongs to the 
everbearing rainily, producing fruit on the 
new canes which come up in the spring, 
thus carrying the orop along until the last 
of October, or unt il t he frost kills tne foliage 
aud green fruit. The canes are large, grow¬ 
ing on good, rich ground, which they re¬ 
quire, six or eight, feet high. They aro per¬ 
fectly hardy, but it. is better to mulch them 
iu the fall with long stable manure, and lay 
them down, giving them some protection, 
such as will save them from the cutting 
winds, and yet not exclude the air. lu the 
spring, after being taken up and tied to 
stakes, the ground should be thoroughly 
forked over, cleaned out, and kept clean 
throughout the season. This treatment is 
equally essential in the cultivation of any 
raspberry if an abundant crop and rich fla¬ 
vor arc desired. This variety first appeared 
iu the gardeu of Mr. John F. Jolls, of 
Providence, who is well known as one of 
our most constant and successful exhibitors 
at the horticultural exhibitions, and as a 
keen and active amateur gardener.” 
Lanier Apple.—This new seedling apple 
was exhibited at the Cotton States Fair in 
1870, aud again in 1871, and attracted much 
attention. Its principal merits are large 
size, fine appearance and good bearing qual¬ 
ities, as we were assured by the 
Fountain. On the next page we give a 
very neat device we find in the English 
.Mechanic. It will be a suggestion for 
Yankee ingenuity to act upon. It is a table 
and lloral fountain. Self-acting, and calcu¬ 
lated to play from one to four hours. It can 
be used wherever flowers and running 
water are desirable. The top part acts as a 
cistern and when the water has run out the 
jet is unscrewed aud screwed into the cis¬ 
tern ; then it. is reversed, both top and bot¬ 
tom being alike. The w 
be performed in half 
spilling a drop of water, 
are movable for reversing, 
a beautiful table or sitting 
FLORICTILTUItAL NOTES. 
Interior of a Fern-House. — We give 
herewith a view of an interior of a fern- 
house, to illustrate the beautiful effect that 
may be produced with this class of plants 
when disposed of in a large Wardian Case 
’hole operation can 
a minute without 
The liower vases 
. 11 may be made 
5-room ornament. 
Separating Flower Sued. — Havine 
raised some liower seeds during the nasi 
’ ,i vll r ich it difficult to clean from 
the chaff, I would like to inquire how such 
seeds are cleaned. I have found Drum¬ 
mond 8 Phlox worse than anything else to 
clean, the chaff being so near the same size 
and weight as the seeds, that no sieve will 
s Wparate them perfectly, nor will fanning 
V, blow out the chaff. I have 
M triad every method that sug- 
Jl/Ti gested itself, but have, been 
cA-jy/t^ unsuccessful. Any inforina- 
tion in regard to the elean- 
mg of these or any kind of 
^ gardeu seods, will be very ac- 
peptable to one who is willing 
lvVAl i' X to impart any now facts he 
oJj may learn, for the benefit of 
WA the readers of the Rural 
V¥ d EW ' y oi V KKK - — Inq hirer, 
1 Roanoke, L. I. 
We cannot understand why 
you should have so much 
trouble with your Drummond’s Phlox 
seed, as we consider it one of the very 
easiest to separate from the chaff. You 
must have waited until the seed had most¬ 
ly dropped out before gathering, or cut it 
too early, and it has now shrunken in th« 
lished, of these varieties, there 
block to progress, unless some system of en¬ 
grafting can be found by which the fruit 
may be changed to better-paying varieties 
without waiting for the tardy and unde¬ 
sirable process of uprooting and re-setting. 
Therefore, “Is grape grafting a practical 
and reliable process?" has become an inqui¬ 
ry of interest. 
D. S. Wagexeb of Pultney, Steuben Co., 
N. Y., hus invented instruments which he 
uses in grafting the vine (and all other fruits) 
with perfect success, as it. is said ; the prin¬ 
ciple being in fitting the cion perfectly to. 
tbecloft in the stock, which his instruments 
ftooomplish to a certainty, in the hands of 
any person of ordinary skill and judgment. 
His system seems very fully Indorsed by 
the best vineyardiste of Hammoudsport, 
Beneca Lake, and other locsilitiea where it 
has been tried, and he invites the inspection 
of his own vineyard, where he has illustra¬ 
tions of his suooess for 
iims, as we were assured by the originator, 
Mr. Thomas P. Shaw, of Edgefield, S. C. 
The tree is some fifteen years old, a very 
vigorous grower aud of good habit. Fruit 
, large to very largo, oblate and always regu- 
I lar. Skin yellow, thickly streaked with car¬ 
mine and with a purplish carmine cheek, a 
few green blotches near the base. Calyx 
small, open, in a shallow aud regular basin. 
Stalk short, slender, set in a deep cavity. 
Flesh crisp, brittle, sugary, rather coarse 
grained. Quality good. Maturity end of 
October to end of November. 
Florida Oranges, acoording to the Rural 
Carolinian, have lost the high character 
they held a few years ago in the Charleston 
market. The complaint is, they smell rusty 
and aro liable to rapid decay; and while 
some years, and fruit¬ 
ing vineB of the setting of 1870, showing, by 
careful test, an Improvement instead of de¬ 
terioration of the quality of the fruit. 
With such ready means of changing the 
varieties of vineyards already grown, the 
promise to those in the grape growing inter¬ 
est is greatly enhanced, as it opens a new 
resort to such as have or may make mis¬ 
takes, or who, for other cause, may desire to 
change the oharacter of their production. 
Can the Rural New-Yorker, or anv of 
A BEAUTIFUL VASE. yellow Put into loose bags or 
(for the structure is nothing less) in a semi- J vaeu dry the seeds will readil 
paturgl way. In this instance other plants fr ° m the chatf ' 
accompany the ferns. We do this because - 
we believe it as Important toeduoatethe Harechal Neil Rose is h 
.ye .ad tile ,»,t. oj people „ to educate Drter 
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