268 THE GRAPE CULTURIST. 



Witt. Seedling of Concord; large, white, and 

 described as one of the very best of its kind. 



Woodbury White. Introduced by David B. 

 Woodbury, Paris, Me. In growth of vine it is said to 

 resemble the Delaware, but berries are white, and as 

 large as those of the Concord 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



OLD, OBSOLETE, AND INFERIOR VARIETIES. 



As the new varieties are introduced and become 

 known, the inferior among the older ones are very likely 

 to be crowded out of cultivation, although an occasional 

 vine may remain in old gardens, or be retained in vine- 

 yards for the purpose of comparison with the newer pro- 

 ductions. Many such old acquaintances, and perhaps 

 some local favorites, will be found in the following list, 

 and a few of these are still growing in my own grounds, 

 as relics of more than one hundred similar varieties long 

 since cremated. There are also a number of varieties 

 named in this list which may be considered of some value 

 for wine, and they will be noted, but as this work is not 

 intended as "a wine-maker's manual," I have paid very 

 little attention to grapes recommended only for wine. 

 I have also purposely placed here many varieties which 

 are not sufficiently distinct to make them worthy of pres- 

 ervation, except in the grounds of those who pride them- 

 selves upon the number of names recorded in their private 

 or published lists of grapes. If a man has almost any 

 four of Rogers' hybrids in cultivation, he possesses all 

 that is specially valuable in the twenty or more originally 

 disseminated, and this is equally true of several other 



