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a dark claret colour, and which he thinks would yield a valua- 

 ble wine. The vine is of very luxuriant growth and a great 

 bearer. 



HYDE'S ELIZA. 



This variety was originated from seed in the garden of the 

 same gentleman, who sent me the preceding one, where it has 

 borne fruit for two years past. 'It is a flourishing vine, the 

 fruit is of medium size, blue when ripe, very sweet and has no 

 hard pulp, it is at maturity the last of August, and continues 

 until the end of September. Mr. M. states that he considers 

 it a preferable fruit to the foreign Black cluster ; and that when 

 the berries commence turning blue, it is visible only in small 

 spots, which at first view appear like the commencement of 

 decay, a circumstance he has not noticed in any other grape. 

 Mr. H. remarks, that he calls it " the Eliza, because it was 

 reared and nurtured by a beloved daughter." 



SWEET SCENTED. PR. CAT. No. 389. 



f . . ' .. ' . . .' f - * 



Male sweet scented. Vitis odoratissima, Donn Cat. Nuttall Mss. 

 Vitis riparia, MICHAUX. PURSH. TORREY. 



This is a dioecious species, and I have never yet had a vine 

 to produce fruit, and I believe others have been equally un- 

 fortunate in this respect, for I have never seen a fruit-bearing 

 vine in any collection. The fact is, that nearly or quite all 

 the old vines in this quarter have been propagated from a sin- 

 gle original vine, and they are all therefore of one sex. I 

 have at present, however, some seedlings of one year's growth, 

 which I consider to be of this species, and which doubtless 

 comprise both sexes, and I shall ere long have fruit from them. 

 Michaux says, that this species principally abounds on the 

 shores and islands of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and Pursh 

 states, that fertile plants are rarely found north of the Potow- 

 mac, but that barren ones extend far south of it. 



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