134 Herbemont. 



BUSHBKRG CATALOGUE. 



(or Warren). 



THE HERBEMONT GRAPE. 



Herbemont. (^st.) Syn., Wakren, 

 Hekbkmont's Madeira, Waurenton, Neil 

 Grape. Origin unknown ; as earlj' as 1798 

 it was propagated from an old vine growing 

 on the plantation of Judge Huger, Columbia, 

 S. C. Nicholas Herbemont, an enterprising 

 and enthusiastic cultivator of the grape, found 

 it there, and from its vigorous growth and 

 perfect acclimation at first correctly supposed 

 it to be a native ; be afterwards, in 1834, was 



informed that it had been received from 

 France, and he believed this. But the same 

 grape was also found growing wild (?) in 

 Warren county, Ga., and is there known as 

 the Warren grape. The best authorities class 

 it as a member of the Southern ^stivalis fam- 

 ily—a native grape, truly called by Down- 

 ing, "Bags of Wine." One of the very best 

 and most reliable grapes for both table and 

 wine, especially a^dapted for hill-sides on 



