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weeks ; even some grapes in the woods rotted. But, to close 

 this essay, I will briefly report those varieties, in my vine- 

 yards, rotting and not rotting. The Isabella, Catawba, Her- 

 bemont's Madeira, Longworth's Ohio, Elsinburgh, Norton's 

 Large Purple, and a number of other kinds, pretty much all 

 rotted, some others, about half. The Vine Arbor, Somerville, 

 my Halifax Seedling, (from the seed of the Halifax, a most 

 excellent grape,) Brinkleyville, and a few others ; some few 

 rotted on part of the vines. The kinds least prone to rot, are 

 Scuppernong, Weller's Halifax, Norton's Virginia Seedling, 

 Lenoir, North Carolina, Hunterville, Franklin, and some 

 other varieties, good in every respect, and none of which 

 rotted this season." Sidney Weller. 



BrinkleyviUe , Halifax County, North Carolina. 



It is only by such tests as the above, that the grapes which 

 are suitable for a certain climate, can be ascertained. It ap- 

 pears that the Scuppernong is the most valuable for the 

 south, — this is of no value whatever, at the north, being 

 more tender than the foreign kinds. In Massachusetts, thus 

 far, the Isabella is the only kind that has really done well in 

 all situations ; at the south, this rots badly. 



The Syrian, Portion Noir, White Nice, Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria, and Verdelho, varieties of the grape that do not push so 

 early in the spring as other sorts, should be tried at the south, 

 as well as the kinds which ripen early. Tliis difference may 

 cause some of them to escape damage, from heavy rains, or 

 other evils. The cluster grapes, as Black July, Miller's Bur- 

 gundy, Pitmaston, and others, are more liable to suffer from 

 the rot than the loose growing kinds. Training them high, as 

 in Italy, from tree to tree, may be the means of preserving 

 them from the rot and blight. If this plan is tried, plant the 

 vine at a distance from the tree, so that the roots of the two 

 may not interfere. The vines may be trained, the two or 

 three first years, to a pole in the earth, and thence carried 

 by a cord, (or any other way that may recommend itself,) to 



