The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1874-10-27

pies were tender at his home in North.
enstern Vermont, they grew and ripened
grapes quite successfully there though
they we're obliged to bury them in win.
ter. The Creveing was commended for
its excellent quality, though from its loose
bunch its appearance was not attractive.
Mr.. Thomas said he thought it the duty
Of every farmer to cultivate largely of
this delicious healthy fruit, aud hoped to
see the time when every man who owned
farm would have half acre Of vines,
and as from the great advance already
made iu producing new kinds both in
quality aud early ripeniDg, he hoped to
see kinds produced that would ripen by
the last Of summer. so that the half acre
would enable the grower to place upon
his table every meal, from that season un.
til spring, large, overlooking dish of de.
licious grapes, and ais, enable his friends
in the larger towns and cities to do the
same at moderate cost, but still at prices
that would pay the cultivator as well. or
better than he received for raising com.
mon farm crops.
As to kinds, Mr.. Thomas said there
were number of new kinds that prom.
ised well for northern ATTITUDES. Among
others he recommended the Champion and
Worden's Seeding as likely to succeed in
northern Vermont. Rogers hybrids had
done well in many sections, but he was
afraid of them as he was all hybrids that
had foreign grapes for one of its parents.
OF all the hybrids he had met, those pro.
duced by Mr.. Ricketts, of Newburgh,
New York, excelled all others. He had
introduced one that was cross between
the Delaware and Concord, that was very
promising, being all native. He thought
it would prove hardy. A Mr.. Prentiss
of Steuben County, had raised from the
seed OF the Issbella,a very fine grape that
ripened two weeks before that old varie.
ty. 1t was also superior to it in other
respects.
A few moments were then occupied in
remarks upon Strawberries, they arc gen.
orally raised on Grand Isle for home use
The Charles Downing was generally rec.
commended as the favorite, it was hardy,
productive and Of good flavor, The Col.
fax was extremely hardy and very pro.
ductivc, it would run out all other
varieties as well as the weeds its growth
was so rampant, but the flavor was not as
good as the Downing. The Wilson was
rejected by some as not good enough in
flavor, but was recommended by most
of the speakers
The hour having arrived when tie
members of the Board and their invited
quests must leave the meeting adjourned.
There was good attendance and much
interest manifested through the meetings.
Had the weather been propitious the at
tendance would have been very large, as
it was the meeting was success, and the
good people Of the Island deserve the
credit they received for their kindness and
hospitality to their visitors as well as for
their excellent show of fruit and veget,
able. We personally fell under oblga-
tions for kind attention from the residents
Of the Island aud especially for the gen.
erous hospitality of the family of the
Chairman of the meetings.
Ga the whole we are very glad we had
an opportunity to visit the Island, We
had pictured to ourselves a very Eden in
our imagination, and feel more leconci.
ed to our own locality for fruit growing,
Notwithstanding the great advantage the
Island possess, over the world and the
rest Of fruitgrowingdom, we found there
we're some drawbacks upon fruit growing
even there, and that the Grand Islanders
obliged to watch, labor and wait and
were ever then sometimes disappointed
Of the full realization of all their hopes
and expectations. The codling moth and
curculio are not entirely unknown on the
Island, and trees did sometimes winter
kill there, and what surprised Us most,
we found, that the large body of water
surrounding the Islands, was aot always
a sure protection against late frosts in
spring and early ones in autumn Not
withstanding these drawbacks, the Islands
are charming places to live, and lots Of
very excellent people live there.