the Black English, and Black American the foregoing are 

 those cultivated for their fruit. There are also the Yellow 

 Floweringf with fruit similar to the Black American, but of 

 larger size and better flavour ; and the Yellow Flowering, 

 with yellow fruit, but not productive these two are very 

 ornamental for their flowers; also the Variegated Leaved, 

 with red fruit the Black English, with variegated leaves 

 and a number of others, calculated more for ornament than 

 use. 



GRAPES. 



Of all the fruits cultivated in the United States there is 

 none more generally esteemed than the grape ; yet, in the 

 mi- Idle and northern states, this fruit is seldom met with in 

 perfection except in cities. The Proprietor having attended 

 particularly to the cultivation of the grape for twenty years 

 past, can confidently assure those who wish to have this fruit 

 in perfection, that they may depend on their vines producing 

 well if they will attend to the following directions ; for al- 

 though a season may sometimes occur when the cold and 

 wet \\iil retard the ripening of the fruit, yet even in the worst 

 seasons a tolerable crop may be calculated on. 



There are two causes why the cultivation of the vine has 

 not been successful throughout the country, attention to 

 which is indispensably necessary : the first is, the proper se- 

 lection of those kinds which are suitable to the respective 

 climates, and which in this latitude should come to perfec- 

 tion by the middle or end of September; the second is, the 

 want of attention to the culture requisite for ripening the 

 wood, which in cities is effected by the dry warm air with, 

 little or no care, but in the country requires art and attention 

 to produce the desired effect. I have, therefore, given the 

 following list of grapes, with brief descriptions of their qua- 

 lities, Sec followed by a general comment on the culture and 

 properties of the vine, which I hope may be considered as 

 useful to those not fully conversant ^with the subject. 



Many of the grapes will be found* to differ essentially from 

 fruits cultivated under similar names in some parts of the 

 United States, as in many instances the possessors of grapes 

 of doubtful origin have attached to them the names of old 

 established fruits. This practice, so common in our coun* 

 try, and so calculated to disseminate error, cannot be to 

 greatly deprecated. 



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