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"Mammoth Catawba" is also a sub-variet}^ which, under 

 high culture, surpasses the original, only in size. — That part 

 of the United States between the thirty-eighth and forty- 

 fourth parallels of latitude, so far, is entitled to the 

 supremacy in grape culture. Already the v/ines of Oliio 

 and Missouri, begin to supplant the imported Khine and 

 Champagne wines here, even at the same prices. Terra- 

 ces rise above terraces on the hill-sides of the Ohio, and 

 the red bluffs begin to disappear beneath masses of vine 

 foliage, and purple clusters of fruit. We find that Indi- 

 ana, Illinois, and Michigan, are improving the hint given 

 by Ohio ; in fact Indiana must be recognized as one of the 

 pioneers, for Vevay first commenced it in the beginning 

 of the present centur3\ Missouri already ventures to 

 contest the palm with Ohio. — The Catawba is twenty to 

 one in cultivation, in Ohio, over the Isabella. Of these 

 two grapes the best wines are made in Ohio. There is a 

 peculiarity of these wines, that no spurious compound can 

 be made to imitate them ; and in purity and delicacy, and 

 we may almost add richness, there is no known wine 

 to equal them. The cuttings of these vines are always 

 saleable, to propagate new vineyards. 



Clinton. Bunch, medium or small, compact, not shoul- 

 dered ; color, blue bloom ; form of berries, nearly round, 

 small ; skin, thin ; flavor, pulpy, rather harsh ; quality, 2 ; 

 situation, South. 



Eemarks. — From Western New York. Not a strong 

 grower, although perfectly hardy and suited to border 

 planting, three feet apart, and stake training not exceed- 

 ing four feet high, in gardens. Its greatest recommen- 

 dation is that it ripens ten days or two weeks earlier than 

 the Isabella, and is, therefore, suited to higher or more 

 Northern latitudes. — Grapes should be extensively raised 

 from seed, but not from the seed of foreign grapes, as has 



