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The Grape Gulturist. 



Please answer the above questions, 

 and oblige, 



Yours, very respectfully, 



Ferdinand Arbenz. 



[If your vines have made so strong 

 a growth, you can safely let them bear 

 some. The Goethe, Cynthiana and 

 Maxatawney will ripen anywhere in 

 the State. For Martha cuttings, we 

 refer you to our advertisement in the 

 December number. — Editor.] 



scientific enough to say positively. I 

 call it the " Cumberland." 



A. G. WlLLET, 



Ml-bkreesbouo, Tens., Dec. 18, 1869. 



[Thanks for the plants. They shall 

 have a fair trial, and we will report 

 on them in due time. — Editor.] 



"Cumberland," — I have a grape vine 

 which I send you a plant by mail. I 

 wish you to have it planted, and let 

 me know what class it belongs to. 

 (Sent by mail). The fruit is repre- 

 sented as good ; foliage something like 

 Scuppernong; plant stout but scrub- 

 by, would require no stakes ; hardy 

 here; roots freely from cuttings. 

 Young wood roots at every joint if 

 merely left on the ground. Native 

 of banks and islands of Tennessee and 

 Cumberland rivers, but scarce. It is 

 to all appearances entirely different 

 from any other species, but I am not 



Lexington, Mo., Dec. 33, 18*>9. 



George Husmann, Esq.: 



I adopted your plan of covering 

 some of my vines, by throwing dirt 

 with a spade. Last November I cov- 

 ered Allen's Hybrid, Ontario, Clara 

 and Herbemont. In the spring, when 

 I uncovered them, I found them nearly 

 all dead oxcept the roots. The Her- 

 bemont was cut back before covering. 

 About one-half of the tip end was dead 

 when raised in the spring. 

 Yours truly, 



E. W. Bedford. 



[Perhaps your vines were injured 

 by frost before covering. We have 

 never had the ej'es rot in winter, but 

 always covered before a severe Irost, 

 — Editor.] 



OTPIELLO. (Arnold's Hybrid No. 1.) 

 A hybrid between the Clinton and j from Canada to our State. 



Black Hamburg, raised by Charles Ar- 

 nold. Described in American Horti- 

 cultural Annual for 1868, as follows: 

 " Bunch and berry very large, much re- 

 sembling the Black Hamburg in appear- 

 ance. Color, black, with a fine bloom. 

 Skin thin ; the flesh very solid, but not 

 pulpy ; flavor pure and sprightl}^, but in 

 the specimens we have seen, rather acid. 

 Ripening with Delaware." 



We have seen the grape but once, in 

 fall of 18G8, and then in a very dilapi- 

 dated condition, as it had been gathered 

 some three weeks previous, and suf- 

 fered a good deal from transportation 



Wc thought 

 the flavor then rather flat and tame, com- 

 pared with the other hybrids of Mr. Ar- 

 nold. AYe have seen the plants grow 

 only the last summer ; they mildewed 

 slightly, but recovered after the rainy 

 weather had ceased, and made a satis- 

 factory growth. Should it prove heal- 

 thy, productive, and of as good qualitj' 

 as claimed for it, it will be a valuable 

 market fruit, on account of its large 

 bunch and berry ; and we would advise 

 those who cultivate grapes with a view 

 to marketing, to try it on a limited 

 scale. Editor. 



