or Jacques. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 



Lindley. 149 



price, as the Jacques^ claiming its discovery for 

 himself. Hundreds of thousands of cuttings of 

 this variety were then sent to France and planted 

 there since 1876, and their success, their immuni- 

 ty from Phylloxera, productiveness, and quality, 

 gave great satisfaction. The indentity of the 

 Jacques, Black Spanish and Lenoir was there also 

 fullj^ established by Prof. Planchon, Pulliat, and 

 other eminent ampelographs. 



As this variety cannot be success- 

 fully grown in our vineyards on ac- 

 count of its non-resistance to mildew 

 and to frost, we requested our friend 

 Onderdouk to test and observe it, and 

 he wrote us (August, 1883), "I am solid 

 on the Lenoir matter now, and have at 

 last become settled in the belief that 

 Jacques, Lenoir and Black Spanish are 

 indenticial beijond doubt; this variety is 

 capable of very great variations under 

 various special conditions." 



In France, also, the success and 

 especially the productiveness of the 

 Jacques varies very much ; in dry soils 

 it yields far less wine, unless irriga- 

 tion is resorted to. Of late years, the 

 Jacques (as it is there still called) has 

 suffered in some sections from the 

 anthracnose. France has now more 

 bearing-vines of this variety than can 

 be found growing in the United States. 



Some California grape-growers di- 

 rected their attention to this remark- 

 able grape, and planted thousands of 

 the same variety, under its proper 

 name "Lenoir.' It succeeds there 

 very well, and is much liked both on 

 account of the fine dark color of its 

 vinous juice and for its Phylloxera- 

 resisting roots. This oldj almost 

 abandoned grape seems destined to 

 become one of the leading varieties of 

 both hemispheres. Even Prof. Viala, 

 — who condemns all American grapes 

 as of no value for France, excepting 

 some few varieties, and these only as 

 grafting stocks. — would not have 

 them abandon the Jaquez in France; 

 admitting it to be an abundant wine 

 producer of value, and a better stock 

 for grafting thereon than the Riparia, 

 in certain French soils and localities! 



The annexed engraving represents 

 a medium sized bunch ot the Lenoir, 

 rather smaller than usual, especially 

 shorter. 



Lexiiig-toH, (Labr.) See Miner's Seedl., p. 15.5. 



I^ightfoot. (Labr.) See Niagara, page 161. 



Lincoln, (^st.) Syn., Hart-grape. Has been 

 supposed to be identical with Devereux, but J. 

 F. Hoke, of Lincolnton, N. C, where it has been 

 largely grown for many years, emphatically states 

 that it is not the Devereux or Klack-grape (Le 

 Xoir), but was formerly known as the Hart-grape. 

 Sam. Miller, who got cuttings of this variety from 

 Col. Hoke, tried it and reported that it is differ- 

 ent from Devereux, and, to his taste, superior. 

 We could not get a description sufficiently clear 

 to distinguish it from Lenoir, of which see de- 

 scription and figure. 



L.indeii. (Labr.) One of Miner's Seedlings (see page 

 155); a BLACK grape ripening several days before Oon- 

 c-ord, with very large bunches, which hang on the vine 

 a month after ripening. 



LINDLEY. (Rogers' No. 9.) 



Lili(lherl)e. {Lindley X Herb.) See Munson's 

 Hybrids, page 159. 



Lindley. (Labr.-Hybr.) Rogers' No. 9. 

 This l)eautiful and valuable grape originated 

 by hybridizing the wild Mammoth-grape of 

 New P^ngland with the Golden Cbasselas. 

 Bunch medium, long, shouldered, somewhat 

 loose ; berries medium to large, round ; color 

 quite peculiar, and distinct from any other 

 variety, rather more of a biiick-red than 

 Catawba color ; flesh tender, sweet, with 

 scarcely a trace of pulp, possessing a pecu- 

 liar, rich, aromatic flavor. Pres't Wilder de- 

 nominated this and the Jefferson grape th'^ 

 Mvscats of America. It resembles the C^^rizzly 



