The Herhetnont Grape. 



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from Mr. McWhatty's vine and com- 

 menced its cultivation himself. In 

 1811 or 1812 Mr. Jackson carried cut- 

 tings to a relative in Laurens connty, 

 where the well known vine grower, 

 Mr. T. McCall, of Dublin, first saw it 

 in bearing. Obtaining it, he planted 

 a vineyard, about 1816, and in 1819 or 

 1820, Prof. Jackson spent a day with 

 Mr, McCall, and drank with him his 

 Madeira, made from this grape. About 

 a year later, Prof. Jackson sent to his 

 brother, in this place (Athens), rooted 

 plants, from which most of those now 

 cultivated here were derived. We be- 

 lieve the Herbemont identical with 

 this vine, as vines in Clarksville, Ga., 

 from Herbemont (also one obtained 

 by Mr. Caman from Herbemont him- 

 self, while living, which is still in bear- 

 ing,) prove nothing distinct from War- 

 ren. As the latter name indicates the 

 origin of the vine, and as under this 

 name and Warrenton, it was widely 

 cultivated at least twentj'-five years 

 before known to Herbemont, and as it 

 is still known as Warren by nine- 

 tenths of those who raise it, the name 

 Herbemont should be dropped. 



White, in the report quoted from, 

 classes this grape as a variety of vitis 

 cestivalis. P. J. Berckmans, in his 

 catalogue for 1868-9, classes it with 

 the same species, and gives the time 

 of its ripening at Augusta as " mid 

 die of August." This agrees with 

 Prince's description of the Warrenton 

 as ripening " from the 10th to the 

 25th of August." 



White and Berckmans both speak 

 of this grape as quite subject to rot in 

 Georgia, but I have never known any- 

 thing of the kind to affect it here in 

 the West, l^ave you, Mr. Editor ? 

 W. C. Flagg. 



[We have seen a kind of rot in the 

 Herbemont, which affects it like a 

 blight, and attacks only parts of the 

 vine, while other parts escape entirely. 

 It comes when the berries are very 

 small. The leaves show yellow spots 

 like sun-scald, and the young berries 

 turn black and shrivel up. It is en- 

 tirely different from the different 

 kinds of rot which attack the Cataw- 

 ba, etc., and has never been very 

 destructive with us. — Ed.] 



THE VINEYARD. 



WORK FOR THE MONTH. 



This will be mostly confined to 

 wine making, as the Hartford, Dela- 

 ware, Concord, North Carolina Seed- 

 ling, and many others will have to be 

 gathered this month. 



It will assist the ripening and 

 swelling of the fruit very much if the 

 vines are hoed and plowed once more, 

 so that the ground may be in a con- 

 dition to absorb all dew and moisture. 



Shade the fruit Avherever you can, so 

 that it can ripen fairl}'. By loosen- 

 ing a young cane now and then and 

 tying it over the fruit, you can assist 

 wherever the leaves may have droji- 

 ped, which is frequently the case this 

 year owing to mildew on the leaf. 



In a separate article we shall give a 

 few hints on wine makint";. 



