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dessert. Good house-keepers make some use 

 of them in the kitchen. We hope, however, 

 that new hybrid seedlings will yet be raised, 

 which shall be far more valuable than any 

 now cultivated. 



Varieties The Isabella succeeds well, in 

 warm situations, in Worcester county ; but 

 the best three grapes that we know to be per- 

 fectly hardy with us, are, first and most 

 valuable, the Blackstone ; second, the Fitch- 

 burg (both natives of this county ;) third, 

 the Carter (which originated near Lowell.) 

 In situations too cold for the Isabella, there is 

 no better grape to cultivate than the Black- 

 stone. 



The Catawba, and the White Sweetwater 

 (or Chasselas) are delicious grapes, They 

 may be successfully cultivated, in the interior 

 of New England, by pruning them heavily, 

 in November, and laying them down, under 

 a covering of three or four inches of loam and 

 straw intermixed. Or they may be covered 

 with a foot or more of soil, which should be 

 carefully removed, early in the spring. 



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