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and very high prices have frequently been offered 

 and refused for it, bj those who were acquainted with 

 its merits from actual use. 



''Prof. J. P. Kirtland, M.D., of Cleveland Medical 

 College, a correspondent of the ' Ohio Farmer,' of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, E'ov. 7, 1857, made the following 

 remarks : ' During the last three weeks, we have 

 amused ourselves in treating, perhaps, a hundred indi- 

 viduals to specimens of the l^orthern Muscadine, 

 Catawba, Diana, Clinton, Isabella and Winslow seed- 

 ling. Four in five (or four-fifths) of these persons 

 have decided the Northern Muscadine to be the best 

 in th^it list.' 



"The subscribers affirm that twenty-five years' 

 trial of this graj^e, in connection with about forty 

 other kinds of our best modern, foreign and domestic 

 grapes, give the Muscadine a large superior margin 

 of profit. In short, its merits only need to be known 

 to be appreciated, however much it may have been 

 demerited by pomologists entirely unacquainted with 

 its quality. It has taken premiums in several fairs in 

 the United States, and has never, in our knowledge, 

 been condemned by those who have raised it and 

 tasted it fresh from the vines, or when properly kept, 

 though it is not a long-keeping variety ; but in this 

 respect, is like all our choicest summer fruits. 



" The best recommendation for this grape is, that 



