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Black July (Berckmans'). — Also known as Dever- 

 eux, Lincoln, Sumpter, Sherry, Blue Grape, Thurmond, 

 McLean, Tully, Husson, Hart (Lenoir incorrectly). It 

 has been found wild in various places in Georgia and 

 Alabama. 



Lenoir (Berckmans'). — Burgundy in Eastern Texas. 

 Black Spanish in Western Texas. May possibly be the 

 Jacques of Mississippi — possibly the Cigar Box, or Ohio 

 of Longworth, but I do not believe it. I shall be able to 

 settle this question in a couple of years. Berckmans got 

 this Lenoir from Dr. Decaredene when the variety first 

 came out from Lenoir County, South Carolina. 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



THE VINEYARD IN TEXAS. 



BY G. ONDEBDONK, ESQ., OF MISSION VALLEY NURSEBIES. 



{From Burke's Almajiac, 1878.) 



It was written of the different classes of grapes by an 

 eminent Northern Pomologist, a few years ago, that 

 "■ Practically it is of little consequence what view is 

 taken of these usual forms, * * as the cultivator is 

 interested in them only as varieties, and it is of no par- 

 ticular moment to him whether we have one hundred, 

 or only one native species. " Too many cultivators have 

 too long acted upon this idea, or rather this want of 

 ideas, concerning the grape. I do not know " all about 

 grapes," but for the last twenty years I have devoted 

 much care to grape-culture in Western Texas, and the 

 results reached have come from dearly bought experi- 



