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cultivate them, and succeeded, but they 
did not keep any time at all, and unless 
I find some way to cure them I should 
consider it a total failure. 
Mr. Pierson—Did the trees hold the 
fruit well? 
Mr. Bradt—They have *»ot fruited 
heavily as yet. They don’t mature all 
at once. Last year they bloomed for an 
extended time. This year they seem 
to be blooming all at once. I had sev¬ 
eral trees that I was watching very care¬ 
fully, and they promised a very nice 
crop, but during the rainy season their 
fruit dropped and I was wondering if it 
was usual, or if others had better suc¬ 
cess. ; tip | 
Mr. Parmenter—I would Hke to know 
what experience anyone has had in ship¬ 
ping Niagara grapes ? 
W. A. Cooper—It is so long ago I al¬ 
most forgot, and I wish I had. I don’t 
ship them; don’t stand shipping at all. 
They fall off the stem. When they get 
to Cincinnati or New York, you lift 
them up, and the grape stays in the ves¬ 
sel while the stem comes up in your 
hand. The only thing I can say is, 
don’t. 
Mr. Embry—I have had some exper¬ 
ience in the shipping of grapes, and it 
was a success. Sold them at $2 a crate, 
and have also shipped to St. Petersburg 
and made a success. 
Mr. Cooper—We shipped a carload of 
very fine ones to Chicago to the World’s 
Fair; sent a gentleman on to represent 
us, and he was to sell them. We were 
going to ship him a car every day or 
two. He got there, thought the mar¬ 
ket was very favorable indeed to handle 
grapes, and he was a little stiff about it 
with the commission men; was going to 
handle those grapes himself. * I had a 
hundred pounds that I shipped and got 
back twenty-two cents in stamps for my 
share. Five of us went on a note in the 
bank to pay the freight on those grapes 
and to ice them and we had that note to 
pay. That was my experience with Niag¬ 
ara grapes. 
Mr. Porcher—The trouble with the 
Niagara grape is that it is too early. It 
comes into the market when the market 
is full of all other kinds of fruit. The 
consequence is that it is practically im¬ 
possible to sell them. I have been 
North and seen them arrive, and they 
literally could not bring the freight 
charges, and yet that grape, coming in 
later, if it could be induced to hold on 
to the stem, it would be sold at very 
good prices. 
Mr. Embry—I would like to say that 
Salem is a very desirable grape to grow. 
Question—What of the Delaware and 
the Catawba? 
Mr. Embry—It will take a Delaware 
vine four years to get up to the size of 
alrriost any other vine of two years. 
The Delaware grape is a good grape, 
but I would hardly recommend it, and 
for any near-by market I would say that 
the Ives was preferable. In quality the 
Delaware cannot be beat. 
