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Riesling. True Riesling, Johannisberg Riesling. This 

 and the following are hardly productive enough to be classed 

 with foregoing varieties, but we can hardly omit them, as 

 their superior qualities for wine make them indispensable in 

 every vineyard. The Riesling has given to the Rhenish 

 wines their high reputation for delicacy, sprightliness, and 

 the high bouquet which has made them known and famed 

 throughout the civilized world. Vine moderately vigorous, 

 wood straight, light brown, speckled with white and darker 

 spots, short jointed. Leaf rather small, round, thick and 

 rough, deeply lobed, grayish green above, light green below, 

 with yellow spots here and there; leaf stem thick, reddish, 

 with rough warts, points of shoots and small leaves yellowish 

 green, wooly, with faint reddish tinge. Bunch small, com- 

 pact, short thick stem. Berry small, round, light yellow, 

 with black dots, transparent ; when fully ripe tinged with 

 brown ; skin thick, juice sweet, very aromatic and high fla- 

 vored, ripens first of October. 



This vine needs long stakes or trellis, and long pruning to 

 canes, and is then apt to lose a large part of its crop by coul- 

 ure, or imperfect setting. It is therefore not a very profitable 

 grape, but like the Traminer, deserves a place in every vine- 

 yard to make a superior product. 



Franken Riesling. Sylvaner, Oesterreicher. This is a 

 somewhat better bearer than the foregoing, though it is also 

 subject to coulure, and a difficult vine to handle, on account 

 of its strong and bushy growth. Yet it makes a very fine, 

 smooth, and agreeable wine, of fine bouquet, though not 

 equal in that respect to the true Riessling. 



Vine vigorous, close jointed, and bushy; wood, light brown, 

 with darker spots; buds, small, brown; leaf medium, round, 

 slightly lobed, thin; bright green and shining, light green and 

 smooth below, with yellow spots in fall; stem of leaf, short, 

 thick, with reddish tinge, points of shoots bright green. 



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