258 



Tlie Grape Gulturist. 



THE HEEBEMONT GEAPE. 

 Synonyms— Warren, Warrenton, Serbemont's Madeira. 



We present our readers with an 

 excellent illustration of this valuable 

 grape this month, and give a short 

 description of it, to which we add 

 some remarks on its origin, gathered 

 by our friend Flagg. 



Bunch very compact and heavy, 

 generally shouldered; berry below 

 medium, somewhat smaller than 

 Catawba, round, black with blue 

 bloom, very juicy, sweet and vinous, 

 without pulp, skin very thin, contain- 

 ing no astringency or tannin ; vine a 

 strong grower, healthy and very pro- 

 ductive i^ suitable locations, with 

 beautiful, deeply-lobed, light green 

 foliage. It is peculiarly adapted to 

 southern slopes and limestone soils, 

 where it will be one of the most pro- 

 fitable varieties. It starts late in 

 spring, and consequently is seldom 

 damaged by frost. Eipens a few days 

 after Catawba. 



THE HERBEMONT GRAPE. 



The interesting facts furnished by 

 John G. Werth in the June number 

 of the Grape Culturist, remind me 

 of some accounts ot the Herbemout 

 that I have happened upon in my 

 reading, which may be new to some 

 of your readers, and possibly not 

 noticed by the author of the arti- 

 cle in question. They lead to the 

 same conclusions at which he has 

 arrived. 



William R. Prince, in his Treatise 

 on the Vine, published in 1830, gives 

 the earliest account of this grape that 

 I have seen ; apparently he had re- 



ceived the same grape from different 

 sources, and accordingly describes 

 Rerbemont's Madeira and Warrenton 

 in ignorance of their identity, and 

 with such vagueness as to show that 

 he had not much idea of their char- 

 acteristics. Merbemont's 3fadeira he 

 had received from Mr. Herbemont, 

 and Warrenton from T. McCall, of 

 Georgia. 



The account of this grape given by 

 Mr. N. White in his report of the 

 Committee ad interim of the Pomo- 

 logical Society of Georgia in 1857, 

 {Horticulturist, 1857, p. 459), is worth 

 reading in this connection. 



" Warren," (Warrenton, Herbe- 

 mont's Madeira).— It is pretty well 

 established that this vine was first 

 cultivated by Mr. Neal, a farmer of 

 Warren county, of this State, living 

 four miles from Warrenton, at least 

 as early as the year 1800. In the 

 early settlement of the country ho 

 found the vine in the woods near his 

 new residence, and transplanted it. 

 Its productiveness and unequaled 

 flavor attracted attention, and soon it 

 became cultivated in Warrenton, and 

 under the name of Warren and War- 

 renton, soon sjjread over the States, 

 [State ?] where it is now more culti- 

 vated than any other grape. In 1805 

 the late Professor J. Jackson (for- 

 merly of Athens,) found it growing 

 under the name of Warrenton, (from 

 whence the cuttings were procured,) 

 at the farm of A. M. McWhatty, in 

 Jefferson county; and when he settled 

 near him, Mr. J. procured cuttings 



