86 Miller s Daily Searitigr 'Raspberry. 



Influence of Soil upon the Character of Wines. 



PERHAPS nowhere is the influence of the soil and its ingredients so apparent as 

 in the difference of character of our native wines. It is peculiar that it will 

 assimilate more of the ingredients of the soil, and show its peculiarities in its 

 product — wine — than in almost any other plant; and pei-haps no soil contains more 

 free salts than the so-called virgin soil of America. That those salts have a do- 

 minating influence upon the character of wine, we hope to show more fully in our 

 article "The Chemistry of Wine." 



We find a striking illustration of this in a comparison, which we lately made, 

 between samples of the wines produced at Herman, Mo., on the southern side of the 

 Missouri river, and some made at Portland, Callaway county. Mo., on the northern 

 side, by Messrs. Kaiser, Ehrich, and A. Eberhard. While the wines of Herman 

 have more of the foxy aroma, and more body, as well as acidity, those from Portland 

 have less of a foxy character as well as acid and body, which, on the whole, may be 

 considered an advantage. The fact is, that the Concord of Portland is a more 

 at^reeable and pleasant wine than that of the same variety grown at Herman, which 

 latter will only lose some of its disagreeable qualities by age and rational treat- 

 ment. 



For Norton's Virginia, however — this prince of American red wines, in which the 

 flavor, which we find repugnant in the Concord and call it foxy, has been developed 

 into real aroma — Herman and its vicinity seems to be the most suitable soil. — Corres- 

 pondence ColmanJs Rural World. 



Miller's Daily Bearing Raspberry, 



ITENTIONED in Western Department of Horticulturist, for January, p. 21, 

 -L'-L has been repeatedly exhibited at fairs and horticultural meetings in this State, and 

 noticed in our reports during the past three or four years. It originated on the 

 grounds of a Mr. Miller, of Clinton county, 0., from seed of the old "Ohio Ever- 

 bearino-," an autumn or twice-bearing variety of the Black Cap, and was thought to 

 be a decided improvement on that variety. '■'' Grigga'' Daily Bearing'" is the name 

 of another and older seedling of the same parentage, and very closely resembling 

 Miller's. Neither of them has been found of sufiicient value to deserve commenda- 

 tion. 



Pai?iesville, O. M. B. Bateham. 



Remarks. — What our correspondent says of Miller's Daily, in Ohio may all be 

 true concerning it there, but won't do for Iowa, so far as one year's trial goes with 

 the plant in our grounds. The main crop was quite up to Mammoth Cluster, along 

 side of it, with but little fruit after — so little indeed that we should scarcely class it 

 amonw the so-called Everbearers. As to its origin, the claim of its being a 

 seedling of the " Ohio Everbearing," diff'ers from the account we have of it from 

 one who oicght to know, and from which it may be inferred is a chance seedling. 



