86 Cornucopia. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Cottage , 



Concord Muscat. (Hybr.) Also grown from 

 Concord seed by Geo. W. Campbell, of Delaware, 

 O., who gives the following description of it: 



" Bunch long, moderately compact, sometimes 

 shouldered; berries very large, oval; skin thin, 

 rather opaque ; seeds few and small ; color light 

 greenish-white with delicate bloom ; flesh entire- 

 ly tender and melting, with no pulp or astrin- 

 gency next to the seeds; flavor rich, sugary, 

 slightly sub- acid, with the peculiar high flavor 

 which is the distinguishing charm and excellence 

 of the foreign Muscats and Frontignans. There 

 are really few grapes among the most admired 

 foreign kinds which equal this variety in pure 

 flavor and high quality. Vine very vigorous; 

 foliage large and moderately thick ; resists mil- 

 dew, except in very unfavorable seasons. In this 

 respect it is better than Eumelan, Delaware, or 

 Rogers' Hybrids, but not equal to Concord." 



Cornucopia. (Arnold's Hybrid No. 2.) 

 A seedling of Clinton crossed with Black 

 St. Peters. Vine much resembling the 

 Clinton in appearance, but superior in 

 size of berry and bunch, and greatly su- 

 perior in flavor ; a healthy grape and a 

 great bearer. The Paris (Canada) Hor- 

 ticultural Society reported on it as fol- 

 lows: 



" This is undoubtedly one of the best 

 grapes in the whole collection of Arnold's 

 hybrid grapes a very promising grape." 

 Bunch large, shouldered, very compact ; 

 berry above medium size, black with a 

 beautiful bloom, flavor excellent, very 

 sprightly and pleasant ; skin thin ; seeds 

 large, bearing nearly the same proportion 

 to size of berry as in Clinton ; flesh melt- 

 ing, with very little, if any, pulp seems 

 to burst in the mouth ; all juice, with a 

 little acid and astringency ; very produc- 

 tive. Ripens with Concord. A good mar- 

 ket grape and "a good keeper"; also 

 valuable for wine. 



Cottage. (Labr.) A seedling of the 

 Concord raised by E. W. Bull, the origi- 

 nator of that variety. A s trong, vigorous 

 grower, with remarkably large and 

 leathery leaves, and abundant strong, 

 branching roots ; bunch and berries 

 about the size of Concord, but of a somewhat 

 darker shade ; ripens before Concord ; quality 

 better than the parent, with less of the foxiness 

 peculiar to the other, but also less suited to 

 some soils and localities than the Concord. In 

 the Bushberg vineyards it is giving better sat- 

 isfaction than most other Labrusca varieties 

 while in some other localities it it not as strong 

 a grower nor as heavy a bearer as Concord, and 

 in some places even does poorly. 



Mr. Bull, in his successful efforts to improve our na- 

 tive grapes, began by sowing the seeds of a wild grape 



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(V. Labrusca) , from which he raised seedlings. He then 

 sowed the seed raised from these and obtained others, 

 among which was the Concord. He then raised 2,000 

 seedlings before he got any that surpassed the Concord. 

 In the fourth generation, or grandchildren of the Con- 

 cord, he obtained seedlings far superior to the Concord 

 and nearly equal to the European grape (V. Vinifera). 

 There seems to be no reasonable doubt that, as Mr. Bull 

 thinks, the wild: grape can, in a few generations, be made 

 equal in quality to the European vine. U. S. Agr. Report 

 for 1867. 



Mr. Bull's experimental garden is a sandy hiUside, 

 soil poor in organic matter but rich in iron. He uses no 

 rich manures; his vines get a little ashes and bonedust, 

 and good culture. Mr. Bull has not succeeded in rate- 



