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The Grape Gulturist. 



the same time disgusting — to see men 

 who do not have the faintest perception 

 of vegetable life, know nothing about 

 the influence of grafting, but only know 

 that the word hybridizing is in the dic- 

 tionary and that it means some horti- 

 cultural operation, persist in trying to 

 force this grape upon Northern plant- 

 ers. If they consider it a " divine 

 gift" to the South, why — let them cher- 

 ish it, where it will prosper. But we 

 have had it growing for fifteen 3'ears 



near Hermann, and all we obtained of 

 it during that time was three bunches, 

 of half a dozen berries each, which we 

 attempted to eat, but gave it up in dis- 

 gust. If it will not stand the climate 

 here, what foil}' then to suppose that it 

 will succeed still farther north. Let us 

 tell our northern readers, once for all, 

 that every cent they spend in its intro- 

 duction and trial is thrown away. It 

 may be valuable at the South, here it is 

 worthless. — Editor. ] 



A NEW GRAPE— THE THEODOSIA. 



Last spring, Mr. E. S. Salisbury 

 sent us six vines of a new variety, 

 named as above, which we planted in 

 the experimental vineyard here, and 

 requested a description of him. 



The vines grew well, seem to be an 

 ^stivalis, and we shall report on 

 them further. Mr. Salisbury sends 

 us the following, a copy of his record : 



Adams, X. Y. , July 1 , 1870. 



'George Husmann : 



Dear Sir — Yours of the 27th June 

 is received; I am glad to learn that the 

 vines are received, and in good condi- 

 tion. As you wish for a more parti- 

 cular description, I do not know that 

 I can do any better than to give you 

 my record of the vine from the first 

 to noAV. I am not good in description. 



History of my seedling grape named 

 Theodosia, the name of my wife. — In 

 the summer of LS62, a chance seed- 

 ling grape vine came up 'v\ my garden 

 grounds. I saw that the vine had good 

 foliage, and made a good grow'th, so 

 I took it up in the fall and heeled it 

 in, and next spring (1863) set it out in 



a row with other vines, Adirondac 

 Israella, and others ; it grew in course 

 of the summer some six feet, and 

 looked remarkably fine. In summer 

 of 1861 it bore seven clusters of fine 

 grapes, and they were well colored on 

 the first day of September, In the 

 summer of 1865 it grew finelj^, and 

 produced twenty-five bunches of fruity 

 which were Avell colored first da}' of 

 September. In summer of 1866, it 

 gi-ew well and gave me some fifty 

 bunches of fruit, which were ripe as 

 usual first day September. In 1867 

 it grew finely and gave me about forty 

 pounds of fruit, but the robins took 

 part; what I gathered made over three 

 gallons of wine, which is high colored, 

 and rich ; this j'car it was well colored 

 fifth September (late season). I believe 

 it is hardy and will make an excellent 

 wine grape. In 1868 it grew well and 

 set finely, and the fruit was black 

 25th of A ugust ; the fruit of this year, 

 together with some other young vines, 

 made ten gallons of wine. In 1869 

 the original vine bore fiftj' pounds 



