PR B FACE 



TO THIRD REVISED EDITION, 1883. 



The BUSHBERG CATALOGUE has become a rade mecum 

 of American Grape-growers ; it has also been translated 

 into French* and Italian, f- an honor probably never 

 before bestowed on any Nurserymen's Fruit Catalogue. 

 Its reprint has long been demanded, but we could not 

 consent thereto until we had leisure to thoroughly re- 

 vise it. The great favor with Avhich it was received, 

 made us the more feel our duty to perfect it as far as was 

 in our power. The experience and reseai'ches of these 

 eight years, since the issue of the second edition, enable 

 us to rectify some of its defects, to speak more definitely 

 of the merits and demerits of many varieties, then new 

 and untried, and to add a very large number of NEW 

 GRAPES Avhich have since been produced or introduced. 



The AMERICAN GRAPE has also become of greatei-and 

 more comprehensive importance by virtue of its now 

 well established Phylloxera-resisting qualities, and. 

 though grown in Europe chiefly as a grafting stock 'for 

 their favorite kinds, every variety has been tested 

 there ; some few, as the Lenoir (Jacques) , Herbemont, 

 etc., are largely planted for direct production, thus 

 enabling us to add to our own opinion that of the best 

 foreign connoisseurs. Xor have we neglected to consult 

 the views of other grape-growers, and to avail our- 

 >rlves of the many valuable essays on the grape, written 

 by eminent Horticultural authors, and scattered in 

 books, newspapers and reports. 



DR. GEORGE ENGELMANN, the celebrated Botanist has 

 enhanced the value of our Catalogue by revising for it 

 his CLASSIFICATION OF THE TRUE GRAPE-VINES OF THE 

 UNITED STATES. He has, in fact, entirely re-written it, 

 and many illustrations, expressly made for this valuable 

 treatise, have been added thereto. He has also favored 

 us with a short essay on THE DISEASES OF THE GRAPE 

 Mildew and Rot, which were but briefly and deficiently 

 treated in the previous edition, and which now occupy 



* LES VIGNES AMF.IUCAINES, Catalogue illustre et de- 

 scriptive par MM. Bush et fils et Meissner; ouvrage 

 traduit de 1'anglais par Louis Bazille. Revu et annote 

 par J.-E. Planchon, Montpellier, C. Coulet. Paris, V.-A. 

 Delahaye et Cie. 



t LE VITI AMERICANS, Catalogo illustrate e descritti vo 

 per Bush & Son & Meissner, Opera tradotta dall'inglese 

 da Farina e comp. Viticoltori m Castellanza, 1881. 



several pages, entirely devoted to this sad but most im- 

 portant subject. We are well aware that this chapter is 

 still very defective, nor can the subject be satisfactorily 

 treated until scientific researches and experiments may 

 have found some practical means of curing or protect- 

 ing our vineyards from these pests, not less destructive 

 to our vineyai'ds than the Phylloxera to those of Europe. 



In this revised edition will also be found a far more 

 exhaustive article on GRAFTING than was presented in 

 the former, wherein we promised to publish the results 

 of our experiments which were then but just com- 

 menced. Our experience in this now so important 

 operation, and the excellent work of AIME CHAMPIN, on 

 the same subject, enable us to furnish a chapter which 

 to many may be both valuable and interesting. 



Assisted by Prof. C. V. KILEY, Chief U. S. Entomologi- 

 cal Commission, we have been enabled to amplify the 

 chapter on INSECTS by a brief account of the beneficial 

 species, useful to the grape- grower. 



At the repeated request of a large number of grape - 

 growers, we have added a few hints on the subject of 

 WINE-MAKING, which may not be quite useless to begin- 

 ners, though we have not changed our opinion (ex- 

 pressed in former edition) as to the impossibility of 

 furnishing a valuable guide in a few pages, or as to tin- 

 necessity of practical knowledge and experience, in 

 order to succeed. 



But far more than the GRAPE MANUAL has the DE- 

 SCRIPTIVE part of this Catalogue been augmented. 

 Many new varieties and good illustrations of the same 

 have been added, and every line of the Descriptive por- 

 tion of the former publication has been carefully re- 

 vised. 



The favorable and highly complimentary opinions 

 voluntarily expressed by our most prominent Horti- 

 culturists, with regard to the previous edition (1S75), 

 permit us to hope that this new one will meet with a 

 still more favorable reception. 



That it may be useful to our grape- growers and en- 

 hance their love of the noblest fruit and its culture, is 

 the wish of 



HUSH & SON & MEISSNKK. 



Bushberg, Mo., October, 1883. 



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