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DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 



ford Prolific, C rev ding, Adirondac, Israella, 

 and Ives^s Seedling. 



ISABELLA. 



Description of Varieties. The Isabella, of 

 southern origin, may be said to be the mother of 

 American grape culture. She performed her 



Fig. 98. Leaf of Isabella. 



work faithfully and well, and we would there 

 fore speak tenderly of her faults. A genera 

 tion has grown up around her, some of them 

 far less comely than she, but others of great 

 delicacy, refinement, and beauty. The Isabella 



