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Wine; too musky and high flavored to be pleasant, with- 

 out mixing with other kinds. 



This grape will probably be found a valuable variety for 

 the vineyard. 



1 1 . WniTE Catawba ; a new seedling from the Catawba, 

 but far inferior to the parent. 



Bunches medium size, shouldered, berries white, large, 

 round, and pulpy — in taste like the Fox Grape. 

 Wine ; not tested. 



12. Mammoth Catawba; another new seedling, re- 

 sembling the Catawba in color, but not so well flavored. 

 Bunches large, shouldered, berries very large, round, pulpy — 

 in some seasons subject to fall ofi" before ripening. 



Wine ; not tested. 



Mr. Long worth, in a letter to the Cincinnati Horticultural 

 Society, remarks: — **I have for thirty years experimented 

 on the foreign grape, both for the table and for wine. In the 

 acclimation of plants, I do not believe ; for the White Sweet 

 Water does not succeed as well with me, as it did thirty 

 years since. I obtained a large variety of French grapes 

 from Mr. Loubat, many years since. They were from the vi- 

 cinity of Paris and Bourdeaux. From Madeira, I obtained 

 six thousand vines of their best wine grapes. Not one was 

 found worthy of cultivation in this latitude, and were rooted 

 from the vineyards. As a last experiment, I imported seven 

 thousand vines from the mountains of Jura, in the vicinity of 

 Salins, in France. At that point the vine region suddenly 

 ends, and many vines are there cultivated on the north side 

 of ihe mountain, where the ground is covered with snow the 

 whole winter, from three to four feet deep. Nearly all lived, 

 and embraced about twenty varieties of the most celebrated 

 wine grapes of France. But after a trial of five years, all 

 have been thrown away. I also imported samples of wine 

 made from all the grapes. One variety alone, the celebrated 



