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has changed colour, it is from the latter course that so many 

 of our native grapes are undervalued by persons who do not 

 allow them time to attain to perfection. The Buck grape (so 

 called) growing in the garden of B. D. Buck, Esq. of Con- 

 necticut, where the vine has been for about ten years past, is 

 now considered synonymous with this, and the history of that 

 vine is stated to be as follows : It was obtained by Mr. B. from 

 Albany, of a person who brought it from Pennsylvania, this 

 accounts in a rational manner for its being the same as the 

 grape called at Albany, the Winne. Mr. B. states that the 

 fruit of his vine is purple, the berries close set, the form more 

 round than oval, pulp about the same as the Isabella, cluster 

 not very large, and that it never sheds its fruit, which is in eating 

 from eight to ten weeks, ripens in September, and hangs on 

 the vines until destroyed by the frost. It is a great and con- 

 stant bearer. This vine has been judged to have upon it at 

 one time fifteen bushels. It has never been trimmed, and is 

 now in a very flourishing state. From a consideration of the 

 circumstances, a possibility arises that this vine may prove 

 synonymous with some one of v the varieties cultivated in Penn- 

 sylvania, and known there by a different name; and indeed it 

 is supposed by some to be the same as the Alexander, which 

 is so widely cultivated in that state. A correspondent at Al- 

 bany mentions, that t the berries produced by his vines are of 

 a round form, black when at full maturity, and possess more 

 pulp than the Isabella. 



In a publication with regard to this grape, the assertion has 

 been made, that it was brought from Bourdeaux, but that it 

 is called a native of Albany. It is however in fact a genuine 

 native, and bears those indelible marks of indigenous origin, 

 which cannot be mistaken by any one the least conversant 

 with the subject. 



