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by originating them from the seed near to the spot of their 

 permanent culture. 



2. The Isabella and Catawba grape have a very high character 

 for the table, and the latter also for wine. When perfectly 

 matured they bear a favorable comparison with the best grapes of 

 Europe; but they are varieties most appropriate to their native 

 region in about lat 33^ to 36^. In a very fine, long season like 

 1852, or a dry one like 1854, they ripen well at Utica, and in 

 less favorable seasons they are still cultivated successfully in the 

 valley of the Hudson below the highlands, and on the southern 

 shores of lakes Ontario and Erie. But as varieties, they are not 

 permanently reliable, on a wide extent of latitude, further north 

 than 40^. Indeed, they have mildewed badly on that line in 

 Ohio, and south of it in Kentucky. 



3. The Diana is favorably known to the public as a most valu- 

 able seedling. Tlie Rebecca, Delaware, To-Kalon, Union Village, 

 Concord, Carter, and perhaps others, have been very recently 

 commended to public notice. 



4. Other varieties as the Charter Oak, of the most worthless 

 character, have been imposed on the public by persons interested 

 in their sale, or too ignorant to be constituted adequate judges 

 of the quality of a grape. 



5. A few foreign sorts, such as the Early Black July, Miller's 

 Burgundy, Violet Chasselas and Golden Chasselas (Royal Musca- 

 dine of Downing,) with some others, ripen early always at Utica, 

 in latitude 43*^. When cultivated as directed in the preceding 

 pages, they may generally be secured from mildew. The last of 

 the above list is a most magnificent grape, both in cluster and 

 berry, and, in warm, dry seasons, of the highest quality. 



6. We need a grape as hardy as the Fox grape, and as valua- 

 ble fur the table as the Isabella, Catawba or Golden Chasselas, 

 and ri])ening as early as the latter, or even, for some localities, as 

 early as the Black July. Such a grape must be a native, since it 

 is conceded that no valuable varieties of foreign e;rapes will uni- 

 formly succeed here, especially in cheap out-door culture. 



7. Some hasty theorizers do not relinquish the idea of improv- 

 ing the native wild grape. But it is sutficiently proved that, 

 however hardy and productive some ^^f them are, and however 

 large the berry and early the maturity, they can never be made 



