138 Senasqua. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Taylor. 



Senasqua. A hybrid raised by 

 Stephen Underbill, Croton Point, N. 

 Y., from Concord and Black Prince. 

 Seed was planted in 1863 and the vine 

 bore its first fruit 1865. Bunch and 

 berry varying from medium to large ; 

 the bunch is very compact, so much 

 so as to cause the berries to crack ; 

 color black with blue bloom ; quality 

 best. The fruit has the peculiar fleshy 

 character of certain foreign grapes, 

 with a brisk, vinous flavor. The vine 

 is vigorous and productive in rich soil ; 

 moderately hardy. It is one of the 

 latest to open its buds in spring, and 

 thereby less subject to injury from 

 late frosts; it nevertheless ripens 

 early enough (here a few days later 

 than Concord). The leaf is very large 

 and firm, and shows no trace of foreign 

 origin, except when it ripens, at which 

 time, instead of the yellow of the Con- 

 cord it takes on the crimson color of 

 the mature leaf of the Black Prince. 

 With us, at Bush berg, it did not suc- 

 ceed so well, and is not near as desira- 

 ble as Underbill's other grapes, the 

 Black Eagle and Black Defiance. Clay 

 soil is not the best for Senasqua ; it 

 requires a light, deep soil. The origi- 

 nator himself does not recommend 

 the Senasqua as a profitable grape for 

 market purposes, but only as a fine 

 and valuable amateur fruit. As such 

 it is of first rank, "of the highest 

 quality to those who appreciate life 

 and brilliancy in a grape." In France 

 (Drome and Lot-et-Garonne) this variety is 

 considered one of the most recommendable 

 of American Hybrids, provided it be planted 

 in the right soil and that it continues to resist 

 the Phylloxera. We give in annexed figure, 

 the likeness of a medium-sized cluster. 



Sharon. A fine new grape, originated with D. S. 

 Marvin, Watertown, N. Y. Probably also a cross be- 

 tween Eumelan and Adirondac. Said to be unsur- 

 passed for a table-grape. Not yet disseminated nor 

 known outside of its originator's place. 



Silver-Dawn. (Hybr.) A seedling of Israella 

 fertilized by pollen of Muscat-Hamburg, a brother of 

 the Early Dawn out of the same bunch raised by Dr. 

 W. A. M. Culbert, Newburgh, N. Y. A fine white 

 grape of best quality ; vine hardy and vigorous. 



Not disseminated. 



Stelton. (Hybr.) Raised by Thompson, of New 

 Brunswick, and referred to in Gardeners' Monthly of 

 Nov., 1882, as one of the many late brilliant appear- 

 ances in the viticultural sky. The bunches are about 

 eight inches long, well-shouldered, rather loose ; ber- 

 ries white, about the size of Croton, and " not hard to 



SEXASQUA. 



take"; in flavor comparing favorably with Lady Wash- 

 ington. We have never seen it. 



Talman's Seedling-, or Tolnian. Syn : CHAM- 

 PION. (Labr.) Grown in Western New York, as an 

 early market grape. Bunch medium to large, com- 

 pact, shouldered ; berry large, black, adheres to the 

 stem. Skin thick and firm ; flesh sweet, juicy, some- 

 what pulpy, with foxy flavor ; vine a very rank vigor- 

 ous grower, perfectly hardy and healthy, and very 

 productive ; said to ripen a week earlier than Hart- 

 ford ; quality not good. The same variety was sent 

 out under the name of ' Champion" as a new variety, 

 but the two are identical. (See Champion, page 82.) 



Taylor or Bullit, often called Taylor's Bullit. 

 (Riparla, accidentally crossed with Labr.) 



The often continuous tendrils, or rather irregular 

 alternation of more than two leaves with tendrils, with 

 often only a third or fourth leaf without such a ten- 

 dril further, the more prominent Labrusca character 

 in many of the Taylor seedlings make it almost cer- 

 tain that the Taylor is a cross between Riparia and 

 Labrusca. 



This old variety was first introduced to 



