The Ten Best Native Grapes

The State Pomological Society offers a very useftil premium list. ïhus its premium for the most useful and best grown exhibit of 10 varieties of nativa grapes for dessert and í'amily use .grown in the open air, brought out at its animal exhibition, this award : First premium - lona, Isabella, Concord,Agawam, Salem, Ives' Seedling, lleheccn, C'alawba, Delaivaic, Kalainazoo. Second premium - Concord, Delaware, lona, Salem, Brighton, Agawam, Wilder, Norton's Virginia, North Carolina, Martha. For the most valuable and best grown exliibit of six varieties of native grapes adapted to market purposes, these varieties took the preminms : First premium - Delaware, huía, Diana, Concord, Ivés' Seedling, Catawba. Secontl premium - Concord, Delaware, Martha, Norton's Virginia, Ca♦awba, lona. It wlll be noticed that the Delaware, and Concord are in all these lists and that the lona is in all of them. Stick to the two lirst and you are likely to have sxiccess with grape culture. At the State Fair, for the most valnable and best grown exhibit of a single variety of native grapes grown in the open air and adapted to market porposes, the Concord received t)ie tirst andsecond premiums. It is a singular fact that no grape yet supcrsedes the Concord as a family market grape, - tlie grape for the million. New varieties come in and go out, but tlie Concord stands the favorito and without a peer as a hardy, thrifty market grape"