According to the above reports, the most popu lar varieties for table use are, first, Concord; second, Delaware; and third, Catawba. Those in highest repute for wine, are first, Delaware; second. Concord; third, Catawba, and Scupper nong in the Southern States. The varieties principally grown are the Concord and Catawba, but the newer varieties are rapidly being dissem inated, and their representative merits will be tested in a few years. On the must scale the Delaware shows the greatest uniform amount of sugar, next the Iona; the Catawba and Norton's Virginia are also favorably mentioned in this respect. In regard to mildew and other leaf diseases, no variety appears to be entirely ex empt; Concord, Ives, Hartford Prolific, and Northern Muscadine appear to suffer the least, and it is probably owing to this exemption from severe leaf injury that these varieties are so prominent. Rot in the berry is almost as univer sal as leaf blights, nearly all the varieties being liable under certain conditions. If any excep tions are made they refer to the family of sum mer grapes, the cultivated varieties of which are the Elsinburgb, Norton's Virginia, Lenoir, Cun ningham, Herbemont, etc. ; these appear to be noted for their freedom from rot. Old vines are also more generally liable to rot than those in young plantations. Shelter from dews and
other atmospheric changes is considered advan tageous in modifying leaf diseases. It has long been observed that plants growing under the par tial protection of the overhanging eaves of a building, also those allowed to ramify unmolested on the branches of trees, are generally exempt from injury. Covered trellises seem to exert a similar influence. The effects of soil with refer ence to rotin the berry seems to be very decided. Soils that retain- water, as undrained clays. are very likely to rot the fruit of grapes, more espe cially when the plants are over four or five years old. Very rich bottom lands are also conducive to this disease. Wet seasons are more fatal than dry on any soil, the primary cause appearing to be an excess of water in the soil. The chemical constitution of the soil does not seem to exert any very marked influence on the growth of the vine; clayey soils produce the richest fruit as also the earliest ripe; the latter, however, vineyard culture, a fact which should be con sidered by those who are still experimenting with foreign wine grapes east of the Rocky moun tains. The table given below will be found valuable as showing, at a glance, the status of viniculture in the several States of the Union.