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and brought it north. Prince propagated it and called it the Isabella, and ten 

 years later he published a treatise on the Grape. It is cultivated now to a very 

 limited extent, and is found too late for high latitudes. 



The Isabella has played its part in rearing a numerous family of children, 

 but they being of the Southern type of the Labrusca, but a few are in favor 

 North. 



One of them, the Adirondac, was introduced in 1852, though of surpassing 

 excellence, did well for a few years in favorable localities, but from inherent de- 

 fects was generally discarded, even in its native home on Lake Champlain. 

 The Catawba, a native of North Carolina, was brought to notice by Major John 

 Adlum, of Georgetown, D.C., who published the first American work on Grapes 

 in 1825, under the quaint title of " A Memoir on the cultivation of the Grape." 

 In it he claimed that in introducing the Catawba he conferred a greater 

 benefit upon the American nation than he would have done by paying off the 

 national debt. In a very short time the Catawba was extensively cultivated 

 along the Ohio River, and Nicholas Longsworth, of Cincinnati, manufactured 

 large quantities of wine of it. From disease overtaking the vine, the extensive 

 vineyards of Southern Ohio were destroyed, but in the lake region of Central 

 New York it found a more congenial home and is now flourishing, supplying our 

 markets in winter with a grape having few equals as a long keeper. The Diana, 

 a seedling of Catawba, was introduced to public notice in 1843 by Mrs. Diana 

 Castore, of Boston, Mass., and was quite popular for a while; though not as pro- 

 ductive as its parent, it is considered by some to be better and is still in favor 

 south, but mainly for its keeping qualities. 



In 1849, Ephraim W. Bull, of Concord, Mass., announced the discovery of 

 the widely famous Concord. After it had captured public favour he was asked 

 how he obtained it and his reply was — " I was looking about for the best grape 

 which met the necessary conditions of hardiness, vigorous growth, size of berry, 

 early ripening, and, with these conditions, as good flavor as the wild grape affords. 

 At the foot of a hill on a woodland path leading to the river, there I found an 

 accidental seedling in 1843. It was very full of fruit, handsome and sweet, and 

 the whole crop had fallen to the ground before August was out. Here was my 

 opportunity. I planted the grapes at once and got many vines, most of them 

 harsh and wild, but one of them bore a single bunch which I found ripe on the 

 loth September, 1849, six years from sowing the seed. This was the Concord." 



Mr. Bull continued his efforts, and succeeded in establishing a strain of 

 seedlings giving new grapes to the country every year. Its progeny could be 

 numbered by the hundred, but for our present purpose only those tested here 

 will be given, namely : varieties the result of natural variation or other parent 

 uncertain, Moore's Early, Worden, Lady, Martha, Eva, Pocklington, Norwood, 

 Cottage, Eaton, Rockland Favorite, and the numerous Concord seedlings of the 

 late T. B. Miner, of New Jersey. 



Varieties definitely known to be crossed with Delaware are, Duchess, Nee- 



