. Catalogue for fall 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Crape Culture.—^Even one grape vine will make a place look home-like, ten to twenty vines will give a good home supply of grapes. Plant grape vines near the house. Make a trellis, or allow the Tines to grow on the porch • it will afford a pleasant shade and produce an abundance of dehcious fruit. Those in good health enjoy it and should eat a few clusters every day. The sick crave the fruit of the grape vine, and it is prescribed for them when other fruit mus
. Catalogue for fall 1900. Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Rochester Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Crape Culture.—^Even one grape vine will make a place look home-like, ten to twenty vines will give a good home supply of grapes. Plant grape vines near the house. Make a trellis, or allow the Tines to grow on the porch • it will afford a pleasant shade and produce an abundance of dehcious fruit. Those in good health enjoy it and should eat a few clusters every day. The sick crave the fruit of the grape vine, and it is prescribed for them when other fruit must not be thought of. On occasions persons have come a long distance to our nurseries to pr-rchase grapes for the sick relative or friend. ISO home is complete without at least 12 grape vines. How well I remember the ancient vines that t^vined their tendrils about the home of my childhood. 'No ornamental vine is more attractive. It is worth its cost for ornament alone. Grape vines will bear fruit the third year from planting, and will continue to bear for a hundred or more years; hence, a grape vine which may cost ten or twenty cents must be a good investment, planted where it can run over the piazza, over the side of the bam or shed, over the garden fence, or to cover some objectionable object, such as a stump, out-house or pile of stones. When estabhshed it will succeed without any cultivation, in good soil, but should be pruned annually. No home is complete without grape vines. Kow pleasant to chp off a cltister of fresh bloom-dusted grapes as you walk at the morning or evening hour. Grapes "are now grown by the hundred acres in many parts of this country. While large vineyardists sell their crops at moderate prices, the friiitgrower who has an acre or less may sell them to his regular patrons at prices very much higher. This is the case at our Rochester fruit farm. Such as we have bring more than double the price secured by large growers, and are a very profitable c
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