90 THE GRAPE. 
their lists for open-air cultivation, but we are not quite 
sure that the /sabella and Catawba do not comprise sub- 
stantially the good qualities of all. The only complaint 
against them seems to be, they will not in all situations 
and all seasons at the North ripen before the frost. 
The Clinton is two weeks earlier than the Jsabella, 
but it is not near so large or good. 
The Catawba is still later than the /sabella, and re- 
quires a warm soil and sheltered location to perfect its 
fruit, and then it is rich and truly delicious. 
We are in great want of a newasedling grape equal 
or superior to the /sabella and Catawba, and decidedly 
two or three weeks earlier. We often have such 
announced, but they do not always prove satisfactory. 
