54 Vineyard Culture. 



Rente, Ohio. Vigorous, healthy, productive; early; bunch rather 

 large; berry full medium to large, round, black, pulpy, sweet, musky; 

 makes very good light red wine. 



ROGERS' HYBRIDS.* No. i. Vigorous; bunch large; berry very large, 

 round, pale red, rather late; esteemed by some; said to improve in the west} 

 foxy flavor, as are they all. 



No. z. Late, large, black. 



No. 3. " Hardy and vigorous 5" large ; amber colored ; quite early. 



No. 4. The most popular of the lot ; may prove profitable for market; 

 said to be healthy and vigorous; bunch handsome, rather large; berry 

 large, black. 



No. 9. Foliage scanty ; canes long jointed } early as Delaware ; reddish, 

 sweet. 



No. 15. Vigorous, healthy, productive ; bunch large; berry large, am- 

 ber, rich, sweet, aromatic. 



No. 19. Resembles No. 4; not considered quite so good. 



No. zz. Resembles No. 15 in color and quality; more Diana flavor. 



Nos. 41, 43, 44. All black and large; better than No. 4, but not so 

 large bunches. 



Rulandcr. Foreign ; berry medium, black ; valued as a wine grape in 

 Missouri. 



Sage. Massachusetts. Vigorous ; berry large ; very foxy. 



Sanbornton. New Hampshire. One of the Isabella type ; said to ripen 

 where the Isabella will not. 



Saratoga. New York. Supposed to be the same as Fancher ; very like 

 Catawba; red, good. 



Segar Box. Same as Ohio; rather tender; vigorous; bunch large, rather 

 loose; berry small, black, juicy ; very good. 



*These seedlings are reputed to be true hybrids, of the Vit'is vinifera t on 

 the labrusca, or wild fox-grape of New England. They were introduced at 

 the meeting of the Lake Shore Grape Growers' Association, at Cleveland, 

 Ohio, in October, 1866, when their merits were set forth by Hon. Marshal 

 P. Wilder, who exhibited them. The above descriptions are condensed 

 from the statements there made. There are said to be still others, some of 

 which have merit. It must be confessed that if hybrids, they are far below 

 the choice varieties of the European grapes that are their reputed parents ; 

 but, if only seedlings, from the miserable wild-fox grape, their mother, they 

 evince a most wonderful tendency to improvement in that variety, that 

 that would have transported Van Mons, had they occurred in his experience. 



