3 70 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



Blue French (12). Burgundy (12). Cigar Box (2, 8, 9, 11, 12). Devereaux (12). El Paso (12) 

 Jack (9, 10, 12). Jacques (10, 12). Jacquez (12). Jac (12). Jacquet (12). Lenoir {12). Long- 

 worth's Ohio (4, 8). Longworth's Ohio (3, 7, 10, 11, 12). MacCandless (12). Ohio (12). 5.-.car 

 Bo^ (3, 6, 7, 10, 12). 



At one time Ohio attracted a great deal of attention in southern grape 

 regions as a wine grape of the Lenoir group but was discarded as inferior 

 to other similar grapes, lacking chiefly in hardiness and in health of vine. 

 The grape is somewhat interesting from its singular history. 



In 1834 some grape cuttings in a cigar-box were left at the home of 

 Nicholas Longworth of Cincinnati, Ohio, during Mr. Long%\-orth's absence 

 from home. The man who left them did not return and Long-worth could 

 not succeed in tracing the donor's identity. From these came Ohio. 



The Ohio has, at different times, been said to be the same, in turn, as 

 Herbemont, Lenoir and Norton. In regard to the first, Long^vorth had 

 Herbemont in cultivation before he received the Ohio and neither he nor 

 his vineyardists failed to see distinct and constant differences between the 

 two varieties. The last two are disposed of in the Cincinnati Horticultural 

 Soc ety Report given on the next page. Longworth and others corroborated 

 these statements from their own comparisons of the varieties growing in 

 the vineyards around Cincinnati. Many grape-growers, and Longworth 

 of the number, have been of the opinion that Ohio might be the same 

 as the variety cultivated in Mississippi under the name Jack or Jacques, 

 both names being corruptions of Jacquez, an old Spaniard who had intro- 

 duced the grape into the section around Natchez. The Ohio is probabh- 

 now obsolete. It did not succeed north of Cincinnati and its culture was 

 dropped in the place of its origin on account of its susceptibility to mildew 

 and black-rot. 



The following description of Ohio is taken from a report to the Cincin- 

 nati Horticultural Society:' "Very fine specimens of the grape cultivated 

 under this name, were presented by N. Longworth and J. E. Mottier. some 

 of the bunches measuring nine inches in length. As there has been some 

 belief expressed by eastern cultivators, that this grape is the same as Nor- 

 ton's Seedling, of \'irginia, the committee took pains to examine them 

 together, in Mr. Longworth's garden, where both were pointed out to us 



^ Mag. //or/., 9 430. 1843. 



