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propitious to its growth. Wherever the hickory and the 

 oak are to be found, there also you may expect to rear this 

 fruit. In whatever climate the Indian corns mature their 

 seeds, the Norton's Seedling grape will certainly return a 

 most astonishing yield to the cultivator. In France, if its 

 properties were understood, it would supply the place of 

 much of that useless trash, which just now so unprofitably 

 clothes her fair bosom ; no casualty would then cause any 

 serious diminution in the vintage, which circumstance 

 alone, independent of the improvement of her vines, would 

 be, in a national point of view, of incalculable benefit to 

 that country." 



Mr. John Carter, of the vicinity of that same city, who 

 also cultivates this and the Catawba and Prince Edward 

 vines to a considerable extent for the purposes of wine, has 

 informed me, by a letter of a simultaneous date, as follows : 

 " With regard to the value of this grape, I will say, that 

 if your climate admits the Catawba and Isabella to mature 

 their fruits before frost, this grape, being rather earlier than 

 either of them, will produce at least 1000 gallons per acre, 

 of such wine as sells here readily for $3 per gallon." 



53. CUNNINGHAM PRINCE EDWARD, 



A very superior grape, found growing in Prince Edward 

 county, Virginia^ much cultivated by Dr. Norton, Mr. John 

 Carter, and others at Richmond and its vicinity, and highly 

 approved by them all as a most excellent table grape, and 

 fine for wine. From Dr. Norton I am favored with the 

 following more particular account of this fruit, which I 

 here subjoin : 



" The Cunningham grape, from the county of Prince 

 Edivard, in this state, does not often rot or mildew; it is 

 certainly a fine-flavored fruit, resembling in taste the Ni- 

 grillo of Madeira. It possesses, next to Norton's Seedling, 

 more saccharine principle than any other fruit we culti- 

 vate; it has so far, however, proved a shy bearer, Leaf 

 three irregular lobes, obtusely serrated, resembling the 

 Bland, the under side yellowish green; length of the foot- 

 stalk 2 inches ; the largest bunches, weighing one fourth 

 of a pound, are of unusual length; berries round, black, 

 sweet, and vinous, irregular in size, some nearly as large as 

 the Bland, being a sack of juice without pulp; ripens the 

 last of September, and by no means inferior to any foreign 

 variety." 



