Grapes In City Yards

Good; here you have multum in parvo. Our friend literally revels within the shade of his own vines while eating of their delicious fruits. Your city readers and owners of small lots should take courage; but when planting, it may be well for them to think how much foliage their vines may be expected to grow when eight or ten years old, and ask themselves if a few less vines, giving each more space, will not produce equally profitable results.

Grapes In Georgia

That able periodical, the Southern Cultivator, published at Athens, Georgia, has a very encouraging article on the prospects of grape culture and wine making in that decidedly progressive State. Mr. Axt has introduced vineyards and hopes to make 2500 gallons of wine per acre, worth at least one dollar the gallon. The vine, it says, fairly revels in that climate, adapting itself to almost every variety of soil. A correspondent of the same paper says: " I feel confident that you and I will live to drink plenty of Georgia wine, of better quality than Ohio can produce," to which the editor replies, "and may the time come speedily." Mr. Axt and others have, however, experienced difficulties with the rot. Mr. A. had a silver pitcher voted to him for his labors at the Atalanta fair. This calculation of 2500 gallons is much too great.

Grapes In Kansas

Has not Mr. Burns got a little mixed up in this matter ? As I read the views of the Lake Shore Grape-Growers' Association relative to grape disease, it especially applied to the rot, and not to mildew.

Grapes In Minnesota

From a letter received from Truman M. Smith, Esq., of St. Paul, Minn., we make the following extracts: "I fruited twenty-seven varieties of grapes last season, and have ten other varieties yet to fruit; but I must place the Delaware at the head of the list, and Creve-ling next. Ontario or Union Village has done finely with me, also the Concord, Hartford Prolific. Northern Muscadine is good here, and outsells the Concord, Isabella, or Catawba in this market. It seems to lose much of its foxy flavor here, but will drop from the bunch when fully ripe, and is not a good keeper. Delaware kept hung up in a dry cellar until 7th of February, when the last were eaten".

Grapes In The West

From the report of the grape committee of the Warsaw (Ill.) Horticultural Society, made in December, 1870, I arrive at the following facts, viz:

The Catawba seems to have been the leading grape this year, setting and perfecting its fruit even better than the Concord. One vineyard of nine hundred vines made thirteen hundred gallons of wine, nearly six quarts to each vine.

Delawares did only tolerably well.

Clintons rotted a good deal in some vineyards.

Concords did well, as they always do ; and where the shoots were pinched to two bunches, they were very large.

The Norton's Virginia perfected a very heavy crop where the fruit was grown on spurs.

All of Rogers' Hybrids that have been fruited here, have given good satisfaction.

Ives' Seedling also did well.