118 Lincoln. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Mariners Seedlings. 



Lincoln. Syn., HART-GRAPE. Has been supposed 

 to be identical with DEVEREUX, but J. F. Hoke, of 

 Lincolnton, N. C., where it has been largely grown for 

 many years, emphatically states that it is not the Dev- 

 ereux or Black-grape (Le Noir), but was formerly 

 known as the Hart -grape. Sam. Miller, who got cut- 

 tings of this variety from Col. Hoke, tried it and re- 

 ported that it is different from Devereux, and, to his 

 taste, superior. We could not get a proper description 

 sufficiently clear to distinguish it from Lenoir, of which 

 see description and figure. 



Linden. (Labr.) One of Miner's Seedlings (see 

 page 121), described as a black grape ripening 

 several days before Concord, with very large bunches, 

 which hang on the vine a month after ripening. 



Logan. (Labr.) A wilding of Ohio. Supposed 

 to be a great acquisition, on its introduction, and 

 recommended by the Am. Pomological Society as 

 promising well ; but it has sadly failed to meet public 

 expectation, and is now more generally discarded 

 than the Isabella, to which it was deemed preferable. 

 Bunches medium, shouldered, compact; berries large, 

 oval, black'; flesh juicy, pulpy, insipid in flavor. Vine 

 a slender grower, early and productive. 



Long. See Cunningham. 



Louisiana. Introduced here by that eminent 

 pioneer of western grape culture, Frederick 

 Munch, of Missouri. He received it from M. 

 Theard, of New Orleans, who asserts that it 

 was imported from France by his father, and 

 planted on the banks of Pontchartrain, near 

 New Orleans, where for thirty years it has 

 yielded abundant and delicious fruit. Miinch 

 firmly believed it to be of European origin. Fr. 

 Hecker was just as positive that it was nothing 

 else than the Clavner-grape of his native coun- 

 try, Baden, Germany. Husmann and others 

 hold that it is a true native American, belong- 

 ing to the southern division of the ^Estivalis 

 class, of which the Herbemont and Cunning- 

 ham may serve as types, and of which they 

 consider it a valuable variety, yielding a most 

 delicious fruit, and making a very fine wine. 



After many years' experience with this va- 

 riety, we feel unable to form a decided opinion 

 as to its proper classification. It may be an 

 accidental cross between an imported and a 

 native grape ; between JEstivalis and Vinifera. 



Bunch medium size, shouldered, compact, 

 very fine; berry small, round, black; flesh with- 

 out pulp, juicy, sweet and vinous ; quality best. 

 Vine a good grower, moderately productive ; 

 canes very stout, of moderate length, short- 

 jointed, having few large laterals, with heart- 

 shaped (not lobed) foliage; requires winter 

 protection. Ripens late. Roots wiry and very 

 tough, with a hard liber ; wood very hard, with 

 a small pith and firm outer bark. 



The Louisiana and Rulander (or rather what 

 we here call Rulander) so closely resemble each 



other in general appearance, growth, and foli- 

 age, that we are unable to distinguish them. 

 If not identical, they are undoubtedly closely 

 related to each other. It is claimed that there 

 is a difference in the wine of these two varie- 

 ties ; that Louisiana makes the better of the 

 two in fact, the finest white wine, of Hock 

 character, that we have. 



ROBESON'S SIEEDLING so closely resembles Louisiana 

 as to consider it identical. CASPER, said to be a new 

 Seedling, raised by Caspar Wild, of New Orleans, also 

 resembles Louisiana, and if not identical, belongs 

 certainly to the Rulander division of the Southern 

 jEstivalis class. 



l.y<li;i. (Labr.) Originated by Carpenter, of Kel- 

 ley's Island, Lake Erie; supposed to be an Isabella 

 seedling. Bunch short, compact ; berries large, oval, 

 light green, with salmon tint where exposed to the 

 sun ; skin thick ; pulp tender, sweet, of fine flavor, 

 slightly vinous. In habit of growth the vine is not 

 unlike the Isabella, but is much less productive. Ri- 

 pens a few days later than the Delaware. 



Lyman. (Rip.) Origin unknown. A northern va- 

 riety, said to have been brought from Quebec upwards 

 of 40 years ago ; hardy and productive. Bunch small, 

 rather compact; berry round, medium, or below; 

 black, covered with a thick bloom ; similar in flavor to 

 Clinton, and ripens about the same time. 



Sherman and McNeil are varieties grown from the 

 above, but hardly to be distinguished from it.-Downing. 



Luna. (Labr.) One of Marine's beautiful seed- 

 lings; probably lost by the decease of its originator. 

 It was the largest hardy white grape we had seen be- 

 fore the appearance of the Pocklington and Niagara. 



Maguire is like Hartford, but more foxy. Strong. 



Manhattan. (Labr.) Originated near New York. 

 A poor bearer. Bunches small ; berries medium, round, 

 greenish-w/u'te with a bloom ; flesh sweet, rather pulpy. 

 Downing. 



Mansfield. (Labr. x). Raised in 1869 by C. G. 

 Pringle, of Vermont, a well-known and successful hy- 

 bridizer, from seed of Concord fertilized by pollen of 

 the lona ; said to combine the more valuable charac- 

 ters of both these popular sorts. Vine a rampant grow- 

 er, with broad and thick leaves, densely woolly be- 

 neath ; bunch large, often shouldered, sufficiently 

 compact ; berry of purplish-black color under a slight 

 bloom ; large, somewhat oval ; flesh tender, with but 

 little pulp of a remarkably rich flavor. Season earlier 

 than Concord. It is predicted that {his will prove a 

 valuable acquisition to the northern parts of our coun- 

 try as a very early variety. 



Marine's Seedling's. These grapes are crosses be- 

 tween purely native varieties claimed to be produced 

 by a new and very simple process : diluting the pollen 

 of the male flower with rain water and then applying 

 it to the pistils of the variety which he selects as the 

 female parent. Among the seedlings thus raised there 

 are some which are quite peculiar and very interest- 

 ing ; some are of the JEstivalis family, but with berries 

 of quite a large size: 1. Nerlutvn line large bunch; 

 berries above medium, black ; leaf very large and 

 leathery, strong. '2. Gfeencastlesame as the former, 



