136 Hercules. 



BUSH BERG CATALOGUE. 



Hermann. 



large leaves as well as 

 veiy large fruit. Bunch 

 large to very large, 

 sometimes shouldered, 

 attractive in appear- 

 ance, berry very large, 

 round, black with 

 blue bloom ; pulp rath- 

 er juicy, not tender, 

 and does not readily 

 release the seeds ; fla- 

 vor good, cracks and 

 drops badlysometimes : 

 season about with Con- 

 cord. A handsome 

 amateur grape. It at- 

 tracted much attention 

 at the World's Colum- 

 bian Exposition in 

 Chicago (1893), owing 

 to its very large ber- 

 ries, resembling well 

 grown Black Hamburg. 

 Size and appearance 

 being more appreciated 

 than quality. 



Herinaim. (^Est.) A 



seedling of Norton's, 



raised by F. Langen- 



doerfer, of Hermann. 



Mo., in 1863. It has 



been fully tested in 



various places and 



liroved well as to 



growth, foliage and 



fruit. On trying the 



must on Oechsle's scale 



it showed 94° to 105 . 



Bunch long and narrow, 



seldom shouldered, 



compact, often nine in- 

 ches long; herrn small, 



about same size as 



Norton's, round, BLACK 



withBLVE bloom, mod- 

 erately juicy, rarely 



rots or mildews, and 



ripens very late, several 



days later than theNor- 



ton. The juice is of a 



brownish-yellow, mak- 

 ing a wine of the color 



of Brown Sherry or 



Madeira, of great body, 



and of flne flavor ; sat- 

 isfactory in the South 



Central States. Our 



friend Sam . Miller says : 



'' There is a peculiar 



fragrance about the 



wine of the Hermann, 



and, were I a teetotaler 



in drinking, I should 



like to have wine of it 



just for the pleasure 



of smellinj^ it." The 



J'rench jtulges at the 



Congres Montpellier 



pronounce the Hermann " bien droit de gofit, 



particuli^rement bon et corse." 



Vine a strong grower and veiy productive, re- 

 sembling the Norton's in foliage; but the leaves 

 are of a lighter color, the stems covered with pe- 

 culiar silvery-white hair-like threads, and the 



THE HERMANN GRAPE. 



leaves somewhat more deeply lobed. It is, like 

 its parent, very difficult to propagate from cut- 

 tings in the open ground. Jioots wiry, very tough, 

 with a smooth, hard, liber, defying all attacks of 

 the I'hvUoxera. Canes of medium thickness, 

 great length and vigor, and a moderate number 

 (Continued p. 138.) 



