Show SEEDLESS GRAPE Neglected Vine in Fence Corner Now Brings Owner r Sutter county in California is the home of one of products of the soil of which the entire citizen ship of California is exceedingly the seedless says the Chicago Evening Regarding the details of the discovery of the fam- ous Thompson seedless the residents of Marys-ville and the surrounding country are still but regarding the essential facts there is no The seedless grape was developed upon the farm of John who now owns eight hundred acres set out to this incomparable and from which he enjoys an income estimated to be j had long been a grower of grapes and had worked persistently to improve the quality of his In this effort he sent to an Eastern nursery for an assorted lot of fine which he planted on his Whether or not nourished the ambition to produce a seedless which has been the dream of horticulturists for is not However this may the new plants were installed on the the principal vine from which the seedless grapes were produced finding in a fence f These vines were treated in the very same manner that California horticulturists have been treating grapes since their first They were short- pruned and otherwise cared for through the first and all bore grapes of excellent except the now famous which was apparently One fall the overlooked this and it was thus permitted to go into the next season with its accumulated growth of long the har- J vest time came that great was the astonishment k of the men of the vineyard when they discovered that the neglected vine was loaded with the most delicious seedless white These grapes proved to be excellent table raisins andl white wine It immediately dawned upon John that the long-cherished dream of the horticulturists had been realized in this neglected vine of the fence f |