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Verqennes (red) has fruited just enough here to show 

 that it is a valuable one. Buucli and berry medium. 



BiiiGUTON (red). A largo bunch and berry, above 

 medium. Superior quality, but the vine is not fully 

 hardy. 



The Eatojs^ (black) has been highly spoken of as to 

 size of bunch and berry, but the quality is said to be poor. 



Gakber (black). — Hardy and productive. Bunch 

 and berry a little below medium, of good quality, and 

 will undoubtedly make an excellent dark-red wine. 

 Among the earliest. 



Mingo (black). — A small bunch and berry, but ripens 

 before any other. Makes a heavy, very dark wine ; can 

 write with the juice and it would be taken for ink. 



Hero (black). — A sport of the Concord, nearly double 

 the size and of fair quality. 



There are others on trial, but as they have not fruited 

 here I cannot say how they will do. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



GRAPE CULTURE IK MISSISSIPPI. 



g. M. TRACY, MISSISSIPPI EXPEKIMENT STATION, STARKVILLB. 



Grape culture in Mississippi has been developed almost 

 wholly within the last ten years, and is now increasing 

 more rapidly there than is any other one branch of fruit 

 growing. In the northeastern part of the State, from 

 Booneville to Corinth, are many large vineyards, and in 

 the region about Starkville, in tlio central part of the 

 Btate, are several covering from ten to fifty acres each, 

 while ivom along the Gulf coast largo quantities of grapes 



