The Eulander and Louisiana. 



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good growers, more or less healthy 

 aud productive, according to position 

 and treatment, but requiring winter 

 protection, which is a drawback. 



They both belong to the widely 

 diffused Burgundy family, Avhich is 

 remarkable for its intrinsic value, its 

 many subspecies and their adapta- 

 bility to different localities and clima- 

 tieal conditions, in contra distinction 

 to some other varieties (Riesling, 

 Gutodel, etc.) which hardly bear being 

 transferred to other parts of the world. 

 In Germany, some of the said sub- 

 species arc known as white and black 

 Burgundy, Clavner, Eulander etc. in 

 France as Pinnoau, in Hungary' as 

 Tokaj^etc. 



What Ave call here Exdander, seems 

 to mo not to be precisely the same 

 vine known by that name in the neigh- 

 bourhood 6f Mentz, and must perhaps 

 be traced to the vineyards laid out 

 by the carh' French settlers on the 

 western bank of the lower Mississippi, 

 (Cape Girardeau and St. Genevieve,) 

 though there is a saying that the 

 Eulander was brought to the neigh- 

 borhood of St. Louis by some Ger- 

 mans dirctly from the fatherland. 



The Louisiana is not identical to 

 the Eulander, thongh closely related 

 to it, not distinguishable from it in 

 growth and foliage, but its fruit being- 

 more compact and iTniform and of 

 perceptibly greater excellence. — Last 

 fall I have sent Louisiana grapes to 

 different parts of this country, and 

 they Avere unanimously declared the 

 most perfect produced here' by open 

 culture, superior to the DclaAvare 

 and all others. I have also tried it 

 for wine on a small scale, and it made 

 a true Eudcsheimer. 



With me, on a position not peculi- 

 ai'ily favored, the Lousiana proves to 

 be so much more productive, and yiel- 

 ding so much nicer and more delicious 

 fruit than the Eulander, that I have 

 already commenced to root out the 

 latter and substitute the former in 

 its place. 



The present tenderness of the Lou- 

 isiana I hope to overcome l)y raising- 

 seedlings from it, h.'fving found that 

 the seedlings of the not less tender 

 Herbemont, if reared here, are as 

 hardy as any of our native wines 

 can be. 



About the origin of the Louisiana 

 there can exist no doubt. About 15 

 years ago I received from Mr- 

 Thearel, of iSTew Orleans, a bundle of 

 the grape grafts designated as '''White 

 and Eed Burgundy/' but badly packed, 

 so that I only succeeded to make two 

 of the giafts grow. They proved to be 

 quite alike, the grapes of a slate color, 

 but the juice colorless and making a 

 white wine like the so called Eulander. 

 Mr. Thearel informed me that this 

 vine had been imported from France 

 by his father and planted on the banks 

 of Pont Chartrain near New Orleans 

 where it has for oO years yielded abun- 

 dant and luscious fruit. 



In the first years with me the fruit 

 was insignificant, which made me neg- 

 lect the vine; it became more perfect 

 year by year, till at present I have 

 nothing more brilliant and excellent 

 in ni}' Avhole vineyard. 



I will add that all of the Louisiana 

 I have to spare, for the present, is 

 already given away; but I hope to be 

 able next fall to help amateurs to 



