190 Woodruff. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Yoakum. 



This variety supplies a long felt want ; it 

 is now occuppying as a red market grape the 

 same position as the Concord and Worden 

 among the black ones. Geo. W. Campbell 

 remarked : " Much has been said against the 

 qualit}'^ of this grape by eastern grape-grow- 

 ers ; — it may not be adapted to their soil and 

 climate ; but the demand for it has increased 

 largely each successive year, with many ex- 

 pressions of satisfaction from those who have 

 successfully grown and fruited it ; I found it, 

 to my taste, equal to the Niagara or Pock- 

 lington." 



G. B. Bracket says: "Woodruff (red) 

 seems well adapted to this locality (Iowa). 

 Hardy, abundant bearer, large, compact 

 bunches and remarkably free from disease ; 

 it has escaped black rot when other varieties 

 all around it have been affected by it." 



Sam Miller sixys: "Taking all things 

 into account I deem Woodruff's Red the most 

 valuable of the red grapes. Bunch and ber- 

 ries very large; quality excellent." I have 

 no doubt that it will make also a very good 

 wine." 



Some growers again pronounce the Wood- 

 ruff hunch small, quality poor, pulpy and 

 foxy ; yet admit that it is productive and 

 handsome. Occasionally the Woodruff is 

 over productive to such extent as to serious- 

 ly affect the quality of the fruit, and this 

 explains the unfavorable testimony just quot- 

 ed and its variable quality. 



Reinecke. a seedling of Woodntff 7-ed, resem- 

 bling it in every respect, was produced by Rau- 

 tenberg, of Lincoln, 111. Not being superior in 

 quality nor sufficiently distinct in other character- 

 istics, it should not be disseminated as a different 

 variety. 



Woodward {Lahr.) See Isabella, page 141. 



Worden. (Labr.) Syn.,WoRDEN's Seed- 

 ling. Raised by S. Worden, Minetto, N.Y., 

 from Concord seed. It has very nearly' the 

 health, vigor and productiveness of the Con- 

 cord, whose place it is gradually taking in some 

 places ; it has the same tenderness of skin, 

 softness of pulp and non-keeping qualities 

 which render it difficult to ship it successfully 

 to market ; otherwise it might even supersede 

 its distinguished parent. In character and 

 appearance like its parent, only a few days 

 earlier in ripening, and in quality distinct 

 from Concord, with a peculiar superior flavor ; 

 bunch large, compact, handsome, shouldered ; 

 berry large, black ; skin thin, flesh sweet, 

 much like Concord, but generally regarded 

 as a better grape. It is doing poorl}'^ in the 

 South, but desirable in the Northeastern or 

 North Atlantic States, where it ripens more 

 perfectly, being one week earlier, and seems 



less subject to rot than the Concord. It is 

 now very popular and largely planted for vine- 

 yards and gardens. (See Concord, p. 107.) 



Worthington. (Bip.) See Clinton, page 103. 



Wright's Isabella. See Isabella, page 141. 



Wylie's Hybrids. "Too much can scarcely be 

 said in praise of Dr. Wylie's persevering efforts in 

 the improvement of the grape." — P. J. Berck- 

 mnns, Chas. Downing, Thomas Meehan, W. C. Flagg, 

 P. T. Quinn, Committee on Native Fruits, of the 

 American Poraological Society. (Proceedings 

 1871, page 54.) 



This testimony, and the excellent character of 

 these hybrids as regards flavor and general ap- 

 pearance, entitled them to special attention, and 

 we gave them a place in our Catalogue, third 

 edition, 1883. Few persons can appreciate the 

 immense labor and perseverance which his ex- 

 periments have cost. Most of them failed from 

 mildew and rot. In 1863 he had over one hun- 

 dred promising seedlings, but during the war his 

 vines were ruined. 



In 1868 Dr. Wylie planted again one hundred 

 seedlings, and, after many failures to produue 

 seedlings of hybrid Scuppernongs, he finally suc- 

 ceeded; but, owing to a little hot-house being 

 over-heated, he again lost nearly all of them. 

 Then, on the 27th of April, 1872, a frost killed all 

 kinds of grape-vines in that section. Again, in 

 November, 1873, his residence was burned, and 

 Dr. Wylie went back again to his old place, ex- 

 perimenting and working with the same zeal and 

 enthusiasm as ever, wishing "(/ Itoere only young 

 again— with the experience I have!'''' But in the fall of 

 1877 Dr. Wylie died. Shortly before his demise he 

 had favored us with a friendly personal letter, from 

 which we extracted descriptions of quite a num- 

 ber of his hybrids (published in our Catalogue, 

 third edition, pp. 147 and 148) ; but, with the ex- 

 ception of three — "Peter Wylie,''^ '^Berckmans^^ and 

 '■'Mrs. McClure''^ — none of his varieties were dis- 

 seminated. All the others are doubtless lost. 



Peter Wylie. (Parentage,/. Halifax and Foreign, 

 m. Delaware and Foreign.) White; trans- 

 parent, becoming golden-yellow when fully 

 ripe; bunches and berries above medium size, 

 between Delaware and Concord, excellent in 

 quality and meaty, with a peculiar delicate Mus- 

 cat flavor. A vigorous, short-jointed, rapid- 

 growing vine, w^ith thick native leaves; holds 

 its leaves until fall and ripens its wood thor- 

 oughly. 



Wylie's Berckmans. See description, page 90. 



Wylie's Mrs. McCInre. See description, p. 159. 



Wyoming o\- Wyoming^ Red. See irilminr/ton lied, 

 page 1S8. 



Yankee. (Labr.) A white Concord seedlins grown 

 Ijy J. W. Gray, Atwood, Ills. 



Yellow Muscadine. See Scuppernong, p. 177. 



Yoakum. (JSst.) llesembling the Herbeniont; its 

 juice is of deeper color, its foliage is more deeply lobed, 

 but otlitrwlsc much inferior; ripening unevenly and 

 being less ijioductive. It has therefore been abandoned 

 in most localities. 



Yoiiker's Houey Dew. (Labr.) See Hartford, 

 page 132. 



York Lisbon. (Labr.) See Alexander, page 84. 



