Merits of the Isabella and Catawba Grape. 167 



Beurre de Flanders. — Large size, melting, and excellent. 

 Ripens in December. 



Bergamot Ficve. — Medium size, melting and good, new, 

 good bearer. Ripens in November. 



Berganiotte Cadette. — Medium size, melting, and excellent. 

 Ripens in December. 



Beurre de Bolwyller. — Medium size, juicy, and good; 

 grows well on the quince; ripens in April. 



Duchess of Mars. — Medium size, melting, and good; tree 

 hardy. Ripens in November. 



Sageret. — Large, turbinated, seven to nine inches in cir- 

 cumference; skin green, spotted with brown; flesh melting; 

 sweet, sugary, and slightly perfumed. Tree pyramidal, and 

 vigorous in its growth. Ripens from December to INIarch. 

 This is the Sageret of Van Mons, described in the Bon Jar- 

 ditiier, from which we have translated this description, and not 

 that of M. Sageret, an inferior fruit. 



There are many other new pears of reputed merit, which we 

 shall notice in a future paper, together with several other new 

 fruits. 



Art. IL On the comparative merits of the Isabella and Ca- 

 tawba Grapes; with a notice of a new native variety called 

 the Ohio grape.) and observations on the cultivation of Grapes 

 from seed. By N. Long worth, Esq., Cincinnati, Ohio. 



I WAS surprised, on reading a communication in your Mag- 

 azine, (Vol. VII., p. 331,) from an intelligent gentleman at 

 Marietta, Ohio, in which he speaks of the Isabella grape as 

 the best native grape cultivated by them, and that they com- 

 mence using it for the table as soon as it assumes a red color. 

 I should suppose he alluded to the Bland Madeira, did he not 

 speak of that grape in a subsequent part of his letter. I have 

 ceased to cultivate the Isabella for near twenty years, deeming 

 it inferior, as a table and wine grape, to most others. He 

 gives it the preference over the Catawba, as a table grape; 

 with us, it ripens badly, and is subject to rot, and in its best 



