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grapes. This, and the Isabella, are considered to be the 

 best to use as stocks to ingraft on. 



1 17. Luj 'borough. This is a Fox grape, found about two 

 and a half miles from Georgetown, District of Columbia. It 

 is larger and better than the Eikton, and has a very rich ap- 

 pearance. 



1 18. Muncy. This grape was discovered in Lycoming 

 county, Pennsylvania, and also in Maryland. The fruit is 

 of a pale red colour, and hangs loosely on the bunches; 

 they are of good size, and ripen late the fruit is sweeter 

 than many native grapes, and the vine is productive. It is 

 considered bv Mr. Adlum, of Columbia, quite an acquisition 

 to our collection of American grapes, as being capable of 

 producing excellent wine This grape has, by close com- 

 parison, been found so similar to the Catawba, as not to be 

 distinguished ; which would seem to favour the idea, that 

 the Catawba did not originate in Georgia, but is, in fact, a 

 native of Maryland. 



109 Etaingburfff or Ellsenborough. This grape was 

 found near the town whose name, it bears, in Salem county, 

 New Jersey, where it would probably have remained unre- 

 garded, had it not been brought into notice and cultivation 

 by Dr. Hillings. It is a very sweet, juicy fruit, and of 

 a blue colour; it is very hardy, exceedingly productive, 

 and promises to be valuable for wine - T the bunches are of 

 middle size, and the berries hang loosely; it ripens at the 

 same time as the Meunier, and is free from pulp or musky 

 taste, and has generally but two seeds. It is undoubtedly a 

 native, all the characteristics of which it bears. Its wood re- 

 sembles that of the Isabella : but the fruit approximates more 

 to the Meunier of France than any other American errape. 



JRaisin du Cote. Ol this grape, a native of Louisiana, 

 there are two varieties, which are found through a vast ex- 

 tent of territory, from the Atacarpas to the Missouri. The 

 variety, or species, most known, is dark blue, and round; 

 skin rather thick, and the fruit somewhat pulpy extremely 

 sweet, and not musky. 



Louisianian Dwarf. I have received a grape from Upper 

 Louisiana, which I have named as above. The person who 

 sent it states, that they do not run much to vines, but grow 

 about three or four feet high, and then bend over, and fall to 

 the ground ; and that they produce a great abundance, of 

 very good grapes. I have also received a number of vines 

 from Texas, whose characters are yet unknown to me. 



