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may be too tender to sliip to distant markets. It will, 

 no doubt, also make a very fine white wine. A strong 

 grower, dark brown wood, large and healthy leaves. 



Ko. 10. Peakl. — (Taylor seedling). Bunch heavy, 

 larger than Elvira, compact, shouldered ; berry full me- 

 dium, round, pale yellow, covered with a delicate bloom; 

 skin thin and transparent; pulp soft and melting, juicy, 

 sweet, and high flavored; of great promise both as a table 

 and wine grape ; very productive and healthy so far. 

 Eipens a few days later than Concord. Vine a strong 

 healthy grower, large, bright green leaves, and grayish 

 wood. 



Mr. R. has a great number of other seedlings. One, a 

 Delaware seedling, black, which ripens four or five days 

 before the Hartford, and may become valuable as an early 

 market grape, as it is of good quality. No. 12, much re- 

 sembling Elvira, may also be valuable. 



No. 20. — A black Taylor seedling, with a peculiar plum- 

 like consistency and flavor, very agreeable. Another ac- 

 cidental seedling which Mrs. Rommell found and saved, 

 is the most delicate berry I ever saw, with a skin as thin 

 and transparent as cobwebs, pale green, no pulp, and 

 very sweet ; flavor, pure. So far the bunch is very loose, 

 though it sets an immense number of them. Mr. Rom- 

 mel made some wine of it this fall, which he thinks the 

 finest he has yet tasted. Should the bunch Improve, it 

 may become one of our most valuable wine grapes. 



No. 14. —A black Taylor seedling, which promises very 

 highly for red wine. A seedling of the Elvira, which he 

 thinks far superior to its parent, has fruited but once, 

 and shows evidences of great merit. 



Uhland. — This is another Taylor seedling, highly 



promising for white wine, grown by Mr. Wm. Weyde- 



meyer, at Hermann. It makes a heavier and higher 



flavored wine than Elvira, but the leaf is hardly so heavy 



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