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BLUE CARTAGER, GIBBS. PR. CAT. No. 116. 



This is a wine grape received from Vienna by Col. Gibbs, 

 of this island, to whose politeness I am indebted for this 

 as well as many other varieties received by him from the same 

 quarter, to which I have added his cognomen. It is said to 

 yield the best Hungarian wine, and is deemed by the gentleman 

 above referred to as very suitable for vineyards in the western 

 states. From this grape is made the Bunda or Osen wine, and 

 by a particular process, the Munster tokay wine. It is of vi- 

 gorous growth, and often forms shoots of great length : the 

 fruit ripens about the 20th of September. 



FELDLINGER. PR. CAT. No. 120. 



The fruit of this celebrated Rhenish vine ripens with me 

 the 20th September ; the berries are round or a little oval, 

 whitish, with a slight wtinge which gives them a gray appear- 

 ance. It is a native of the department of Bas-Rhin, in 

 France, and succeeds well on the borders of the Rhine. 



OLWER. PR. CAT. No. 129. 

 Ollwer. 



This vine succeeds best in a warm exposure ; the wine made 

 from it has attained celebrity in the northern departments of 

 France, near the Rhine, on account of its use, being consi- 

 dered a preventive against the gravel. Whether any other 

 pure wine would not have quite as much effect in this respect, 

 amateurs will determine for themselves. It is much cultivated 

 in the north of France, and I imported two thousand vines the 

 last spring from the borders of the Rhine. 



