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CLARKE'S GRAPE. 



This variety was also received from Virginia, and is called 

 after the proprietor of the plantation on which it was discov- 

 ered. The original vine is very large and old, and extremely 

 productive, the bunches and berries are of good size, the grapes 

 ripen well, and are in perfection in August, and hang a long 

 time on the vine. They .are exceedingly sound and firm, 

 sweet and well tasted, and the person who owns the vine, 

 states that his mother used to have the grapes gathered in the 

 fall and put up in a barrel, (a layer of straw and a layer of 

 fruit,) and that they were preserved in this manner during the 

 winter as plump and sound as when first packed away. 



SMALLWOOD. 



This fine native vine I received from E. Smallwood, Esq. 

 of North Carolina, who exercises much discrimination in re- 

 gard to the qualities of valuable fruits. He esteems it the 

 most desirable variety for making wine, although he has also 

 the White and Black Scuppernong. The fruit he remarks 

 is about half the size of the Muscatel grape. 



POND'S SEEDLING. 



This is a variety raised from a seed of the Black fox grape, 

 by Mr. Samuel Pond, of Massachusetts. Mr. P. states in a 

 letter to me, that the bunches are long and of good size, the 

 berries round, purple, and juicy, with a thin skin. He con- 

 siders it one of the best native varieties, and states, that its 

 growth is remarkably vigorous, with proportionably short 

 joints. One shoot of the past season measured twenty-seven 

 feet, and on another of the same age he counted fifty-seven 

 joints. 



GALE GRAPE. 



This vine I received from Samuel Downer, Esq. of Boston, 

 who obtained it from Troy, in this state, and informs me that 



