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height of the tube5», and by cutting deep 
I could obtain stalks 15 inches or more in 
length, and very thick. Another advan¬ 
tage of the jar tops was that the stalks 
would tip them slightly as soon as they 
reached them, and show which stalks were 
ready to cut. 
Encouraged by the success of the trial 
plot I have described, I planted four acres 
from seed, markiug out in the same mau- 
uer, and dropping two seeds at each in¬ 
tersection ; I made the mistake of plant¬ 
ing in the Spring, and had all kind of 
trouble with weeds, and, to cap it .all, 
many of the seeds wei-e washed out by 
heavy rains. At the same time as I 
planted the seed I started a bod for pro¬ 
viding i>lants for replacing those which 
did }iot survive, aud the next Spring 
planb-d the vacant spots from this bed. 
I find the plants started from the original 
planting better than those transplanted. 
Where two seeds grew in one spot we 
pulled one out. 
Now, as to comparative yields. In the 
original patch of two-lifths of an acre I 
have, in good weather, cut, day after 
day, 50 pounds of good marketable aspara¬ 
gus from this plot, not counting that 
grown in the tubes, of which I have about 
300 in use, and which give me 15 to 20 
pounds of extras every day; it takes about 
three days for a stalk to reach its full 
develoi)meut iu the tubes, and sometimos 
four or five days, according to the weath¬ 
er. I iutcud to put the tube system into 
work on the four-acre patch this year, as 
it will be at the height of its develop¬ 
ment then. As to comparative results, 
the ordiuary stalks (by this I mean those 
grown without tubes), ruu nearly all 
firsts, aud bring extra good i>rices, being 
heavier, thicker' and more tender than 
those ordinarily found on the market; 
the only culls I get are from roots that 
have been injured iu cultivating, these be¬ 
ing usually found at the eud of the rows, 
where the horses turn. As to the com¬ 
parative cost of labor*, it takes less time 
to cut a pound of these heavy stalks, less 
time to bundle it, and, as a rule, it is all 
sold before it is cut, so that it takes less 
time to sell it. I can fiud a local market 
for all I can raise, hence do not need to 
ship any. 
If I had to plant again from seed, 
would plant iu the Fall, so that I could 
get ahead of the weeds, because the plants 
will show earlier. Outside of cutting the 
stalks there is no hand labor attached to 
cultivating, except once in a while to 
loosen up the ground directly around the 
stalks with hoe iu very dry weather. 
Another advantage iu planting as I de¬ 
scribe is that after the plants are three 
years old one can inter-crop after the 
cutting season is over; late cabbage will 
do well, and last year I raised a good 
crop of tobacco between the stalks, plant¬ 
ing iu late .Tune. I bedieve if I ever 
start another plantation that I shall make 
the rows seven feet apart, each way, aud 
inter-crop orchard fashion after the first 
year, planting whatever crop I put iu in 
hills SYi feet apart, so that cultivation 
both ways can still be continued. The 
four-acre plot is located ou a hillside, also 
sloping south. L. itvrris. 
Lancaster Co., Pa. 
Fruit Note* from Missouri 
It was very interesting to compare Mr. 
GladAvin’s notes (pages 13 and 35) ou 
grapes iu New York State with my ex¬ 
perience with the same varieties here iu 
Southern Missouri, latitude near 3712 
degrees, especially the new kinds of 
Munson origin. 
I will take up first the R. W. Munson 
and Bailey, which he declares never be¬ 
come palatable although most attractive 
in appearance, and this even when the 
growing season seems to bo quite long 
enough for them to arrive at complete 
maturity. The failure of these as well as 
most vines of southern origin Mr. Glad¬ 
win attributes to the shorter Summers of 
the North, but to corroborate that there 
is something exceptional in the behavior 
of these two sorts. I will say that they 
exhibit precisely the same faults here 
with a growing season about a mouth 
longer. The fruit they produce is of 
high grade in appe.arauce, but when 
tasted is found to la<‘k the necessary de¬ 
gree of sweetness that should accompany 
full maturity. Now as varieties much 
later than these Iavo kiuds uiuturc here 
April 1.1, 1918 
perfectly, what cause shall we assign 
for their failure? Is soil concerned as 
well as climate? 
There is another variety of Northern 
origin that has the same weakness, the 
King Phillip from Massachusetts. It is 
.a very large and showy grape, ripening 
early, and though faulty iu pollination, 
might be found to have market value 
were it not that its flavor stops short of 
the requisite sweetness. 
Tie pronounces the Captivator the only 
Southern variety that has proved trust¬ 
worthy in ripeniug, though subject to 
winter-killing. It bore here for the first 
time last Summer; its clusters are of a 
beautiful shade of rod and its quality is 
very superior. When sacked I found it 
one of the longest keepers of all, but 
though it preserved its good looks it de¬ 
teriorated in quality. It must have fur¬ 
ther trial before venturing any judgment. 
Passing ou to grapes of Northern 
origin, Mr. Gladwin says some good 
words of the Eclipse. Tie pronounces it 
sni)erior to ^foore in quality and but a 
trifle smaller in berry than Concord. My 
own ' taste prefers !Moore (Moore’s 
Eaidy), and I think “trifle” hardly strong 
enough to express the difference in size. 
This difference is emphasized by the much 
smaller clusters*. I admit that it might 
be ciit for market a few days ahead of 
Moore and (’ampliell and that this might 
well justify its culture for some markets, 
but for a local town market I do not find 
it pays. Neither does it compare in pro¬ 
ductiveness with Concord and its record 
here in that I’ositcct has not been satis¬ 
factory. The moment Mooi*e’s or Camp- 
bell’s came on the market, it would be 
quite out of the “running.” 
In regard to the new grape Caoo, our 
conclusions coincide so far as only one 
season’s trial hero goes. The Moyer that 
he compares favorably with the Delaware 
I regret not to have tested. Coming to 
the Lutie, which he considers should 
prove commercially profitable, “as the de¬ 
mand for red grapes is stronger year by 
year,” he pronounces its foxiness not ob¬ 
jectionable. Personally I find this grape 
uneatable, but I must admit that I do 
not lieai* others criticize it. We agree 
that the berries shell off badly after ma¬ 
turity, but while it is a second early here 
it certainly does not ripen with Moore’s, 
as Mr. Gladwin records it iu the Lake 
Erie district, or even with Green Moun¬ 
tain.- A further objection here is that 
the clusters do not ripen up evenly and 
with uniform color, but the vine has great 
vigor and is very productive. The 
Brighton here is just as early, far better 
iu; quality, superior iu size and beauty 
of cluster aud inferior only in its handling 
qualities. 
Mr. Gladwin says good words of the 
Ilogal which I can generally endorse, but 
I find the Lucile very similar except that 
it has longer, showier elu.sters, unexcelled 
in average size, and ripens earlier, iu 
mid-season, while the Regal ranks with 
the late kinds. Both these varieties are 
of the dependable kind that load them¬ 
selves every year and are not troubled 
■with that bane of so many flue sorts, im¬ 
perfect )>olliuation. I am glad to hear 
that iu the East the red grape is gaining 
iu favor. I repeat that I am inclined to 
place the A^ergonnes at the head of this 
color. Compared, for example, with such 
robust mates as Regal and Lucile, I 
should say that the Vergennes equaled 
them iu productiveness and reliability 
and surpassed them iu size of berry, in 
beauty aud in quality. I should like to 
hear how this grape is estimated in the 
Lake Eric district aud should like to see 
Munson’s M'ericacDel and Xlnta tested 
there, as have been Bailey and R. W. 
Munson. AV^hile these two last have also 
been failures here, the others have been 
couspieuous successes. I am glad to see 
Ml*. Gladwin’s commendation of the 
Green Mountain, a sterling variety Avith 
?iot a single bad quality to score against 
it. I.. K. JOUNSON. 
Cajie Girardeau Co., Mo. 
Maiuokie startled the family the other 
morning by exclaiming at the breakfast 
table, “I’m full of glory.” “What ou 
earth do you mean, child?” asked her 
mother. “Why,” explained Marjorie, “a 
sunbeam just got on my spoon aud I 
swallowed it.”—Credit Lost. 
Parson, “’This eccentricity you speak 
of in your daughter, isn’t it, after all, a 
matter of heredity?” GSirl’-s Mother, 
“No, sir. I’d have you know that there 
was never any heredity in our family.” 
—JiostoH Transcript, 
