Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-01

We s"'Su '-Ou thls SHE OF Cant0rnla 20 Eu-
ropean grapes can be raised, while there is
scarcely limit to their production in Cali
ioTnia. Dea. Butman considered the Diana
good enough. 1t is decidedly our best native
grape. VIM. I. Merriaell remarked upon
one great difficulty in grape culture. The
wood is not rip,ue enough. You cannot
have good grapes without sound wood.
A vote being taken, the Diana was uuani-
mously adopted
Concord DIR. Woodward wished to know
If it always ripens Dea. Butman and Edwin
Draper could ripeuil. The CHAIR would pre-
fer it 10 any OF the new kinds DIR. Wood.
ward The Isabella will ripcn unfailIngIy in
Northampton. when it scarcely ever does in
Worcester He had succeeded in raising
them at the Lunatie Hospital against high
wall, for several years, but yet they were
never SO good as at Northampton. lie had
served as Chairman of a Committee of this
society, upon all the fruits" in a season Of
average temperature, when the committee
unanimously decided that the Concord grapes
at the exhibition were none of them ripe.
Other gentlemen expressed their opinions
very bre fly, mainly in favor OF the Concord,
when, upon taking the question, the Concord
was ADOPTED.
DeIO,rWe.-The chair does not believe that
it can he raised in the open air of Worcester.
S. II. Cotton has lad it for seven or eight
years and is also doubtful OF the possibility of
raising it out doors in this locality Alex.
Marsh said that Mr.. Moore of Charlton con.
siders it the best grape that he has. The chair
said that, If he was going TO raise them, he
should train them close to n wall, without
trellis. In 1857, he raised five bushels of
grapes. DIR. Woodward has seen Diana and
Rebecca ripen upon board fence that had
been covered with coal tar. TO an inquiry
about the comparative period of ripening of
the Delaware and Rebecca, Jas. I. Allen re-
piled that he had ripen, Rebecca before the
Delaware. The two grapes are pretty much
the same size. II. II Keith said that Mr.. Tn.
derwood, of Leicester, considered the Rebcc-
ca The best of tie native grapes. S. S. Eos
ter now moved, and, upon its second by Jona
GrOut, II was voted that the Delaware be pass
ed over for future consideration.
1t was noticeable throughout the discussion
that members were cropping in the dark.
The Isabella was necessarily the standard of
comparison. The chief problem to be solved
was conceded the quality, at what pc
riod 10 the Hartford Prolific, Diana, and
Concord ripen? earlier or later than the Isa-
bella? And the difficulty of solution, OBJ
vious from the fact that, while most culiiva-
tors wholly failed of their crop in 1861, Dea.
Bntman's vines never bore so prolusely under
customary culture, was increased by the alb
sence OF opportunity TO note the conditions Of
development Of the several varieties, owing 20
their very recent introduction Time, which
tests all pretensions, can alone determine the
relative merits OF our native grapes. In rec.
ommending the Delaware, we are desired to
state that the committee acted not so much
upon personal knowledge, which was suffi-
GENTLY obvious in the discussion, as upon a
weight of authority in favor of its quality,
hardness, and yield, that they did not feel at
liberty to wholly disregard
The discussion having closed, S. S. Foster
moved that Strawberries be the subject for the
next meeting, and that committee of five be
appointed by the chair to report two lisrs-one
OF the varieties most suitable for domestic use,
and the other of those best adapted to market
purposes. The motion was carried, and the
chair appointed Messrs. Edward Earle, chair.
man, Dr. II. Woodward, Dea. Butman, u.
Waldo Lincoln, and S. H. Cotton.
Upon motion, the meeting then adjourned
to Thursday, May 1st, at the library in Horli
cultural Hall, between the hours OF three and
five o'clock P, NJ