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everything is all right, as far as I can see. I can then grow 
grapes and make money out of them. I do not advise any 
man to go into grape growing unless he has circumstances, 
varieties, soils, etc., in his favor. 
Lyman Phelps —About sixteen years ago, after having 
been brought up in the grape region of Central New York, 
I undertook to grow grapes in Orange county. I tried it 
about four years in a small way. I spent a thousand dollars 
and received nothing for my efforts. I got nothing back. 
W. H. Mann —I gathered a box of white grapes last year 
in July, and kept those grapes for two weeks and they kept 
good and sound. I think something might be made out of 
grape growing in South Florida. 
R. W. Pierce —Where can grapes be grown if not in 
Florida? I was in California last year and I saw the China¬ 
men there taking the vines through the streets for fire wood. 
This did not seem to me to prove that grapes were so very 
profitable there. 
Replying to a number of questions, Mr. Wright said: As 
fine grapes as I ever saw in my life, and I have seen a great 
many, I have grown in South Florida. I use a fertilizer with 
plenty of ammonia, some phosphoric acid and a little potash, 
one-half pound to the vine, annually. Forty pounds of grapes 
to the vine a little over three years old is what I have pro¬ 
duced in my vineyard. In South Florida the vineyards are 
worked with clean culture up to June 1st. 
I believe that on most of our flat lands in South Florida the 
Niagara will be short-lived. I have a row of the Duchess, and 
they are very productive. There are several objections to 
this variety. One is they are too productive. You have to 
thin them out or reduce the quantity by short pruning. 
Again, as they begin to ripen they begin to shed. The Cyn- 
thiana, Herbemont and Norton’s Virginia all do well enough 
on high land. The Herbemont and Cynthiana succeed better 
in South Florida than they do in the Tallahassee region, and 
there is no reason why these grapes should not be grown 
profitably if, as I said, the proper means of transportation 
can be secured. 
I want to say a word in regard to a gentleman who is grow¬ 
ing grapes near Winter Park. He has foreign varieties as- 
well as American varieties, but he believes as I do that he 
will have to put the white grapes into wine. 
