112 Ives. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Janesville. 



THE IVES GRAPE. 



thick-spreading, and of tolerably hard texture. 

 Liber thick but firm ; pushes new spongioles 

 rapidly and offers good resistance to the Phyl- 

 loxera ; it nevertheless did not succeed at all 

 in southern France. It does not seem to be an 

 early bearer, four-year old vines of this variety 

 producing the first crop ; however, it bears 

 profusely when older. The Ives wine has a 

 most beautiful deep red color, but a foxy taste 

 and odor. Must 80. 



Jaeger's selected. i;stiv;ilis varieties. Fif- 

 teeA years ago, Herman Jaeger, of NEOSHO, southwest 

 Missouri, sent to Frederick Muench some grafts of 

 V. .ZEstivalis which he had selected from among those 

 growing wild in that region. Encouraged by the favor 

 with which our late friend Muench viewed them (espe- 



cially the NEOSHO and the FAR WEST), and desirous of 

 finding or producing some superior varieties of this 

 hardy and healthy class of grapes (belonging to what 

 we call the northern group of V. jEstivalis), Jaeger 

 continued to select some wild vines remarkable for 

 their quality or size, and to cultivate them, as also to 

 grow vines from their seed. They are as yet only desig- 

 nated by numbers ; and he has kindly furnished us 

 (Aug., 1883) the following brief notes on those which 

 he considers the most promising : 



No. 9 bunch large ; berry below medium, fine, 

 juicy, pure sweet; very prolific; rots in sultry 

 weather. 



No. 12 medium sized bunch and berry, very sweet, 

 with a peculiar, very fine flavor ; fruit healthy, 

 so far. 



No. 13 size of bunch and berry like Ives ; a marvel 

 of health and productiveness; fruit of peculiar fla- 

 vor and not pleasant to eat, yet, with same treat- 

 ment that will make a fair wine from Concord 

 grapes, a decidedly better wine can be produced 

 from this (No. 13). 

 No. 17 bunch large ; berries medium, good, sweet, 



and healthy. 



No. 32 bunch and berry of medium size, very sweet, 



healthy ; dark brown wine, of Sherry character. 



No. 42 bunch of Norton size, berry larger; best in 



quality; very sweet, and juicier than most 



. JSstivalis, with a delicious vanilla-like aroma. 



The finest flavored grape I know; productive 



and healthy. 



No. 43 bunch and berry of Concord size ; very pro- 

 ductive and healthy ; may prove a valuable wine 

 and market-grape. 



No. 52 of still larger size ; promising. 

 H. Jaeger, in a letter to V. Pulliat (July, 1883), writes 

 that he also cultivates some hybrids of Cordifolia 

 crossed with Rupestris; and that he succeeded in cross- 

 ing the wild jEstivalis with Rupestris, which promises 

 some meritorious varieties; He thinks that by cross- 

 ing the sweet Cinerea with a well-selected Rupestris, a 

 grape could be produced which, though small in size 

 of the berries, would be good enough in quality to sat- 

 isfy even the European taste, and at the same time 

 would be perfectly resisting to the Phylloxera.* 

 We wish him best success. 



Jacques. Syn., Jack, Slack Spanish (Ohio, 

 Cigar Sox, &c.) See LENOIB. 



Janesville. (Labr. X Rip.), by some supposed to 

 be a cross of Hartford and Clinton.) An early black 

 grape, largely planted in Iowa and Wisconsin, but 

 now generally discarded for better varieties. Vine a 

 vigorous grower, hardy, healthy, and productive; 

 bunch medium, compact; berry medium to large, black ; 

 skin thick ; flesh pulpy ; quality about like Hartford ; 

 colors even earlier than this variety, but fully ripe at 

 about same time. 



* M. Mares, a distinguished member of the French 

 Phylloxera Commission, reports that among his Rupes- 

 tris he found one which the third season produced 1 kil. 

 grapes, of magnificent color, ripe on the 2d of August, 

 the must of which had an excellent taste, weighing 11 

 Beaume (83 Oechsle) scale, and made a very good wine. 

 This variety may become the starting-point for many 

 interesting seedlings or hybrids; it is of remarkably 

 vigorous growth and unharmed by Phylloxera. The 

 fibrous roots of the Rupestris are long and strong, and 

 defy drought even in less than ordinary soils. 



