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iiutumu are the last to yield to frost, remaining per- 

 fectly green and vigorous after all others have 

 withered and fallen; consequently, it has often an 

 amount of imripened wood, which should be cut off 

 before winter. 



"Bunch very large and exceedingly compact, 

 shouldered. Berries below medium, round, dark 

 blue, or violet, covered with a thick, light bloom. 

 Skin thin, which is filled with a sweet, rich, vinous 

 aromatic juice, of so little consistence that it cannot 

 be called flesh. 



"LiNoiR, Long, Devekeaux, and Thurmond. — 

 Under the above names, grapes much resembling in 

 character the Herbemont, are grown in the southern 

 States, and we have hitherto considered them synony- 

 mous of it ; but our southern friends claim that Lenoir 

 is a distinct variety, and much earlier than any of the 

 others, and also that at least some of the others are 

 distinct. The matter is now under investigation, and 

 we must wait the result before deciding." 



ISABELLA. 



The popular account of the origin of this vine, is 

 that it was a native of South Carolina, which being 

 brought to the North and introduced to the notice of 

 cultivators by Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, the wife of George 

 Gibbs, Esq., was named in honor of that lady. It has, 



