256 AMERICAN GRAPE GROWING 



the Sultana, which will bear the same quantity and give 

 much better quality, should plant the Burger. 



Among the American varieties promising highly for 

 white wine, the Herbemont, or Warren, is perhaps the 

 first. Wine has been made from it here, which is very 

 fine, of a pale straw-color, and fine flavor. The vine 

 grows vigorously, has beautiful foliage, and endures all 

 the vicissitudes of our hot summers. It is the only va- 

 riety in the vineyards under my charge which has not 

 suffered in the least from the three hot days in June, 

 which caused coulure in all others. As it is also fully 

 resistant to phylloxera, it promises to be a valuable ac- 

 quisition to this State, as it has already become in 

 France, where its wine ranks high. For a full descrip- 

 tion of it, I refer the reader to the first part of the book. 



I will add here, that all the varieties of Vitis cestivalis 

 promise well here; they have splendid foliage, which ad- 

 mirably withstands the sun and drouth, and also the at- 

 tacks of the thrip, to which the more delicate leaves of 

 the varieties of V. vinifera succumb. Norton's Virginia, 

 at Fresno, with Mr. Eisen, has splendid foliage, and also 

 bears well with long pruning, and here in our vineyards 

 the Cynthiana, Cunningham, Rulander, and Dunn, are 

 growing finely, though not old enough to bear fruit as 

 yet. The improved varieties of V. riparia, however, 

 seem to lose their leaves, and the fruit is smaller than 

 in Missouri; they may not, therefore, be valuable for any 

 other purpose than for grafting stocks. I can report on 

 them further next year, when I shall have a number of 

 varieties in bearing. 



In obtaining cuttings or vines, the purchaser should 

 be especially careful to procure them of reliable men. 

 There is such confusion existing here in the nomencla- 

 ture of vines, that but very few know what they really 

 have, and as a great many vineyards are grievously mixed, 

 it is very difficult indeed to obtain varieties true to name. 



