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RAISING SEEDLING GRAPES. 
I dare say there is not one among you that 
does not like good, ripe grapes—and I still 
further dare say that there is not one among 
you who would not feel proud if you succeed¬ 
ed in raising from the seed, a vine that hore 
grapes as good as, or better than, those which 
grow in your own or neighboring gardens or 
vineyards. I would bo very glad if I could 
induce eveiy member of the Horticultural 
Club to make the trial. A simny southern 
window is all that is needed. Px-ocure six- 
inch pots, give ample drainage by covering 
the holes with broken pieces of pots or stones, 
then fill up with good, sandy soil. Plant 
three seeds in each pot an inch deep—do not 
allow the soil to dry out and yet do not keep 
it wet. I’laut the seeds as soon as taken from 
the grape, otherwise they will dry and not 
sprout readily. Place the pots in a sunny 
southern or eastern window. 8ome of the 
seeds may germinate in three weeks, whilo 
others xnay require one or two months before 
they appear. By next Spring they will have 
made a growth of from one foot to IS inches. 
They may then be planted in the open ground. 
In the Fall cut the wood back to two eyes 
and cover with straw lightly. The next 
Spi'ing peruxit but one of these buds (the 
strongex') to grow thus eonfiniug the seed¬ 
ling vine to one shoot. So grown, most of the 
vines will fruit the third year. If white 
grapes are pi'el'erred, select seeds from white 
gi-apes. This would not insui'e white fruit in 
the seedlings, but a greater percentage would 
prove white than if seeds from black grapes 
were planted. 
This is not a difficult experiment and is 
worth trying. You know the professional 
fruit raisers think they do a very pi'aise- 
woi-thy thing when they originate from seed 
some new variety which proves to be a good 
one, hut there’s no use in their having all the 
pi aise for doing what any industrious member 
of the Club may do under similar circum- 
stances. Wouldn’t it be glox ious if some one 
of the cousins should succeed in raising a new 
gi-ape that should equal—ah, no ! sui'pass— 
even the best now cultivated ! It isn’t im¬ 
possible, and if you don’t succeed the first 
time try until you do. Parents should eu- 
coux-ago children in this kind of work, and as¬ 
sist them in their endeavoi's to learn how to 
propagate all kinds of fruits. It will be time 
well spent. u. M. 
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SOMETHING MORE ABOUT GRAPES. 
I suppose that no gai'den can be called com¬ 
plete unless it has one or moi-e grape vines 
placed where the sun will shed its genial rays 
and fill the clustei’s almost to hui'sting with 
sweetness. There aie two varieties of the 
wild grape in this vicixxity, one called Pigeon 
Plum, which is small and black; the other is 
nameless so far as I know. It is lai ger than 
the fii'st, and is a dai'k red in color. Neither 
of them is disagreeable, but it seems rather 
strange that the Norsemen should have val¬ 
ued them so highly as they did when they first 
came to this couixtry. All the grapes which 
are cultivated here excepting those which are 
i-aised under glass, ai’e said to be descended 
from xxative vines, but the European vines 
grow without protection in California. For¬ 
eign grapes are particulaxdy distinguishable by 
the fact that the pulp adheres to the covei'ing. 
The grape has many enemies, both insects 
and parasites, but with the exception of a little 
mildew our vines are free from them. There 
is a worm, however, a distant relative of the 
ordinai-y caterpillar, [A little indefinite.— 
u. H.] which is very fond of the stems of 
the gi'apes ami cutting out a piece of the stem 
is, on the whole, rather ©mbai'rassing, to say 
the least, to the bunch of fx uit which depends 
from it. 
Probably the two worst enemies of the vine 
are mildew and phylloxera, the latter having 
been introduced into Europe from Amei'ica (?). 
Sulphur is very highly recommended for the 
fii’st of these t.wo; for the latter, two i emedies 
seem to have been successful. One of these is 
to submerge the roots for a month in the Win¬ 
ter time; the other is to apply a weak solution 
of sulphoearbonate of potash. 
Grapes will rarely grow to any extent out¬ 
side the temperate zone being limited to 10° 
north of Boston, and 16° south. Beyond 
these limits it is necessaxy to place them under 
cover, as too powerful heat is as bad as too 
much cold. Even for some degrees inside 
their northern limit the fruit is small and in¬ 
sipid, so that it is hardly worth cultivating. 
Chelsea, Mass. C. A. Butterwortii. 
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YOUNG QUERIST. 
M. N. B., Cedar Mills,. Minn., wishes to 
know how much trimming a vine should re¬ 
ceive each year. Some nurserymen say “ cut 
back to within two or thi'ee buds of the prev¬ 
ious years growth.” I should think that 
would be too severe. 
Ans. —The advice given is as good as may 
be. One vine can ripen only just so much 
fruit without injury. If permitted to ripen 
more, the grapes are smaller and the bunches 
loose. 
D. A. L., Havana, N. 7., wishes to know 
what kind of tobacco is best adapted to this 
climate. 
Ans.—T he Connecticut Seed-leaf is probably 
the best for your vicinity. The Glissner, Ohio 
Broad-leaf, Lancaster and the “ Bi-and ” are 
i-ecommended by G. A. Goff, Jr., Elmira, N. 
Y. Write to him concerning best vai'ieties, 
seed, etc. 
W. C. B., Buckeye Centre, III., inquires 
if a lemon tree will bear fx'uit without budding 
or grafting. 
Ans.—Y es. But it may be many years. 
In answer to Han-y F., Elmixa, N. Y., 
p. <j02 I would say that Pyrethl'um rose- 
xim does blossom the first year from seed, 
and plants more than one year old often 
blossom twice a year; but as regards beai'ing 
seeds that is an uncertainty in young as well 
as old plants, still plants l'aised from seed in 
Spi-ing often bear seed the fii'st year. r. 
Members of the Horticultural Club for Week 
Ending October 22. 
O. F. Puller, Bessie Brainard, Burt Mc¬ 
Mahan, Bertha McMahan, Dwight A. Lake, 
A. D. McKay. Harry French, W. J. Mason, 
Millie Emerson, H, R. Duke, Arthur Cum¬ 
mings, C, A. Butterwoi'th, N. L. Arters, Flora 
Erskine, Kate Brskine, Walter Gilbert, T. H. 
Goode, Minnie S. White, M. Nellie Baldwin, 
Lucy L. Haller, Frank D. Clark, Wilbur F. 
Saxton. Nellie McIntyre, Bursa* McCi'ea, Ida 
M. Moreland, Jessie Packard, Nellie Pack¬ 
ard, W. H. Band, Amelia Mirklei', Minnie 
Palmer, Percy Tuthill, Porter Harrow, Bennie 
Winer. Nellie Winer, Floxa Person, Hattie 
Jones, Clara Jones, J. E. Gallup, D, B. 
Young, Sai'ah Young, J. W. Stowell, Allie 
Stowell, Harry Dewis, Clarence Hays, Fanxiie 
Metcalf, Nancy Rhodes, Sarah Rhodes, Alice 
Taylor, Charlie Taylor, Fx-ank Bear, Charles 
Bear, Gei'tie Cornwell, Berdie Cornwell. 
George Shumurrok, Fred Schellenger, G. F. 
Wedge, Hukla Lick. Nina Coates, Phil Coates. 
Send for the Fair Number of the Rural 
New-Yorker and the new poster for 1882. 
Both will be forwarded gratis to all appli¬ 
cants. 
Sriffllific ._ 
CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EX¬ 
PERIMENT STATION. 
BULLETIN no. G7, OCT. 15, 1881. 
652. Canada ashes, sampled and sent by 
Robert S. Cone, Moodus, from cargo of 1,000 
bushels (barge A. P. Wright) purchased of 
James A. Bill, Lyme. Price 17 cents per 
bushel, 
ANALYSIS. 
Potash....,. 
Soda. 
Lime. 
Magnesia. 
Oxide of iron. 
Phosphoric acid. 
Sulphuric acid. 
Sand and insoluble matters. 
Charcoal. 
Water. 
Carbonic acid and loss. 
1.05 
.50 
34. G5 
2.68 
1.49 
.HS 
.20 
8.61 
2.27 
24.25 
23.42 
' 100.00 
The composition is that of good leached 
ashes. 
655. Impure limestone, sent by N. B. Bill, 
Williamantic. 
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS. 
Lime. 20.28 
Magnesia.43 
Potash...03 
Soda. 30 
Oxide of Iron. 1.89 
Sulphuric acid. trace 
Soluble in strong acids. 22.93 
Silica and silicates insoluble In acids. 61.20 
Carbonic acid (and loss on ignition). 16.49 
_ 100.60 
This rock is said to be situated about two- 
and-a-half miles from Williamantic, and to 
occur in layers that in the aggregate amount 
to three feet in thickness. It burns and slakes 
like common limestone. It contains, in round 
numbers, 40 per cent, of carbonates of lime 
and magnesia. 
The sample analyzed was from a loose frag¬ 
ment believed by Mr, Bill to be identical with 
the rock of the ledge. 
Very probably the impure lime obtained by 
burning this l-ock may be of great advantage 
if skillfully emploj'ed upon the contiguous 
farms. 
G. W. DICKINSON’S BONE MANURES. 
057. Ivory dust, 
65S. Bone turning chips. 
666. Pure hone sawdust. 
The above are from the manufactory of 
George W. Dickinson, of Essex, Ct, 657 and 
65S were sampled by T. S. Gold, from material 
purchased of Charles A. Sill, of Saybi-ook, 
agent. 666 was sampled by the manufacturer 
and received through Mr. Gold. 
MECHANICAL ANALYSIS. 
657 658 666 
Fine, smaller than 1-50 Inch, per cent.52 28 95 
Fine medium, smaller than 1-25 Inch, per 
cent.21 29 5 
Medium, smaller than 112 Inch, per cent—18 2i 
Coarse medium, smaller than 1-6 Inch, per 
cent... 9 •• 
Coarse, larger than 1-6 Inch, per cent. J .. 
100 100 100 
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS. 
657 
658 
666 
3.38 
3.73 
2.15 
26.86 
25.97 
19.20 
[39.54 
$37.8s 
$29.4 \ 
••>o.00 
$30.00 
820.0o 
6*51. Soluble Pacific Guano, manufactured 
by the Pacific Guano Co., Boston, Mass. Sold 
by II. A. Stillman <fc Co., Hartford. Sampled 
August 80 by Dr. E. H. Jenkins. 
The Station is informed by the manufactur¬ 
ers that the sample, of Soluble Pacific Guano, 
505, reported in Bulletin 58, April 28, was 
from a small quantity remaining over from 
last Fall in the hands of the dealers, II. A. 
Stillman & Co., Hartford, and does not repre¬ 
sent the article in market during 1881. Its 
price, the munufact rei'S infotm us, should 
have been S42 per ton and not $45. 
At the manufacturers’ request, sample 661 
has been taken for analysis. The results are 
here compared, with those obtained on 565. 
Nitrogen of nitrates. 
4 .> I l I » »*■;* *• oi . .. r - .Vi 
Soluble phosphoric acid. of' 
Reverted " “ . Liw 
Insoluble *' “ . Q-t?. 
Potash. 
Chlorine... 
Estimated value... 
661 
565 
.62 
none 
1.74 
2.01 
7.29 
5.90 
1.52 
1.36 
8.42 
4.05 
1.76 
2.28 
1.76 
2.45 
$36.83 
§35.36 
$ 15.00 
845.00 
MAPES K. AND P. <4. CO. S FERTILIZERS. 
662. Pure fine bone dissolved in sulphuric 
icid. 
662. Bone superphosjrfwte. 
604. Leopoldshall Kainite. 
665. Mapes Tobacco Manure, Conn, brand. 
The above samples, manufactured by the 
Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Com¬ 
pany, were sampled by Dr. Jenkins at the 
Company’s Hartford Branch, August 80. 
664 
662 
tltrogcn of nitrates. 
Jitrogcn of amxnonla- 
salts...•. 
Jitrogen of organic mat¬ 
ter. 
'Iiosphoric acid, soluble 
•• “ reverted 
e ** Insoluble 
J otnsh. 
Jhlorlnc. 
Sail mated value.$50.69 
Jelling price. .§42.00 
2.74 
1.65 
19.34 
3.16 
668 
13.41 
1.54 
.70 
$37.14 
§36.00 
12.68 
26.08 
* 
§ 18.00 
665 
2.52 
1.95 
.39 
8.29 
2.32 
1.85 
7.42 
1.11 
§49.20 
§53. (X) 
* Potash In this Kainite costs 7.1 cents per pound. 
S. W. Johnson. Director. 
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