This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
It is remarkable that to this day some of the best grapes we have are among those that started the earliest in the race for improvement. The Concord is to-day indispensable everywhere, and this is true of many of the hybrids of Mr. Rogers. At a recent meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Col. Wilder said he could not agree with Mr. Woods in regard to the value of the Rogers grapes; with him they succeed almost as well as any except the Concord and Moore's Early, but his location is a favorable one. The Lindley is superior in quality even to the Delaware. Some seasons it may mildew and others it will not, but we cannot dispense with it.
 
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