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At the end of the Pear list is the following note : " I have about 

 fifty kinds of table Pears engrafted on Quince stocks for dwarfs 

 or pyramids. They bear fruit very soon." 



There are 71 Cherries listed and five varieties of Quince. Num- 

 bers 42-71 of the cherries are imported. 



Grape Vines. — This group is headed with a list of twelve va- 

 rieties " of the finest table grapes," which are offered " by way of 

 subscription, Price $6, to be paid for on delivery." " The whole 

 of these are from the most northerly part of France; and experi- 

 ence has proved that they can be successfully raised in this coun- 

 try." The proprietor offers to replace those that do not grow if 

 his directions for planting are followed. There follows a list of 

 136 varieties (148 in all) of European grapes, the list ending with 

 " 148. Vigne de Jericho — enormous bunches, weighing sometimes 

 10 to 20 pounds, but wants the green-house here — in Georgia, 

 Florida, and more south it will ripen in the open air." According 

 to the legend of the map on page 4 there were in all 263 kinds of 

 " vines." 



There are also offered seven varieties of native grapes (Nos. 

 149-155), including 149. Isabella from South Carolina, 150. Ca- 

 tawba purple, 151. Schuylkill muscadel, 152. Worthington, black, 

 153. Loughborough, 154. Oowigsburgh, white, and 155. Scuper- 

 non. The " Scupernon " (now written Scuppemong) is a south- 

 ern variety, and one of the most important varieties of the New 

 World species, Vitis rotundifolia. It is not now considered hardy 

 in the north. The Catawba (thought to be a hybrid between the 

 New World species Vitis Labrusca and the Old World species 

 Vitis vinifera) was introduced into the trade 1823 in the District 

 of Columbia by John Adlum, who secured cuttings of it from a 

 Mrs. Schall in Clarksburgh, Maryland. This indicates that this 

 early Brooklyn Garden offered the most recently developed va- 

 rieties. 



The Concord grape, a seedling sport of Vitis Labrusca, which 

 arose from a seed planted by Ephraim Bull in his Concord (Mass.) 

 garden in 1843, was not introduced to the trade until 1854, or 26 

 years after the date of Parmentier's Catalog. 



Other interesting items in the Catalog are 85 varieties of plum, 



