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BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Brant. 



are nearly round, coarsely toothed ; wood short- 

 jointed, of light brown color. The bunch and 

 berry are of good size, closely set, not shouldered ; 

 berries oval, no pulp; the tlesb is meaty all 

 through, sweet with a ricli aromatic tiavor; does 

 not crack and has not shown either rot or mildew, 

 so far; keeps Avell; ripens rather late, between 

 Concord and Isabella. Any one who did not 

 know to the contrary would pronounce it a hot- 

 house grape. 



Bottsi. (^st.) The local name for a very re- 

 markable grape, grown in the gai-den of a gentle- 

 man of that name, in Natchez, Miss. It is said 

 to throw all other grapes ever grown there (in- 

 cluding the .lacquez) completely in the back- 

 ground, and is claimed to be the true Herbemont 

 brought some fifty years ago from South Carolina. 

 It diflers from our Herbemont in color, being of 

 a light pink in the shade, a dark pink in the full 

 sun. The impartial, trustworthy testimony of 

 H. Y. Child, an amateur horticulturist, as to its 

 excellent quality and rapid growth, enormous 

 fruitfulness and freedom from rot, made us pro- 

 cure and plant some wood of this variety. — After 

 several years' testing we found it unsuited to our 

 locality, too tender and liable to mildew. In 

 Texas it is found "a splendid thing," but, as Mr. 

 Onderdonk assures us, "just like the Herbemont." 



Boulevard. (Labr.X) Originatedby A. Koeth, 

 Charlotte, X. Y., by crossing the Concord with 

 Brighton. Vine vigorous and productive; hunch 

 large, compact, shouldered; berries medium, 

 greenish-WHiTE, with fine bloom ; juice sw eet, 

 vinous, without foxiness; skin thin but tough, 

 translucent; ripens about same time as Concord. 



Brant. {Rip.-Hyhr.)\ Arnold's No. 8. 

 Seedling of Clinton crossed with Black St. 

 Peters. The young leaves and shoots dark 

 blood-red ; leaves very deeply lobed, smooth 

 on both sides. Bnnch and berry resembling 

 the Clintonm appearance, but greatly superior 

 in flavor when perfectly ripe ; skin thin, free 

 from pulp, all juice, sweet and vinous ; seeds 

 small and few ; perfectly hardy ; vine a strong, 

 healthy grower and sufficiently productive. 

 The bunch hangs firmly to the vine till fall, 

 and the berries adhere well to the bunch. 

 Our illustration of this variety is from a 

 specimen of average size and shape. A very 

 early and desirable grape. It is the most 

 valuable of Arnold's seedlings, and it would 

 be profitable if the birds would not destroy 

 the bunches as soon as they ripen. For lo- 

 calities where grapes ripen later than with us, 

 and where birds are less destructive, it is 

 worthy of the attention of grape- growers. 

 We have seen it growing very finely and suc- 

 cessfully at Milwaukee, Wis., in the garden 

 of an amateur. 



Our friend Champin gave us a very favor- 

 able report of this variety in Northern France 

 (Drome), where the Brant deserves to be 

 cultivated extensively. It resists, so far, the 

 Phylloxera, and during the six years, that 

 he cultivated it, has increased from j^ear 



BRANT. 



to year in vigor and fruitfulness. Brant and 

 Canada have often been confounded with 

 each other, and the following may serve to 

 distinguish them : The Brant has the most 

 sinuous, deeply -cut, indented and lobed foliage 

 of any American variety, while that of the 

 Canada is but little indented and lobed, while 

 young. But the form of leaves is ver}- varia- 

 ble, and no reliable distinctive character can 

 be made of them ; a more reliable character- 

 istic is their color : that of the Brant is of a 



