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CONCORD. 



This fine hardy native grape was raised from seed by E, 

 W. Bull, Concord, Mass. It is of very healthy, vigorous habit, 

 and exceedingly productive. Bunch rather compact, large 

 shouldered. Berries large, globular, almost black, thickly co- 

 vered with bloom. Skin rather thick, with more of the native 

 pungency and aroma than the Isabella, which it resembles, but 

 does not quite equal in quality. Flesh moderately juicy, 

 rather buttery, very sweet, with considerable toughness and 

 acidity in its pulp. It is more hardy than the Isabella and 

 ripens about ten days earlier, consequently it is a very valu- 

 able variety for a large northern range where the Isabella does 

 not ripen. 



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DELAWARE. 

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The precise origin of this grape is not known. We have the 

 following account of it from our friend, A. Thomson of Dela- 

 ware, Ohio, to whose appreciative taste and liberality the coun- 

 try is indebted for the introduction of our best hardy table 

 grape. 



Among an indiscriminate mixture brought to Delaware for 

 sale by a German, he found this, whose excellence immediately 

 attracted his attention, and on inquiry as to its history, he found 

 it in the possession of some German emigrants who said they 

 brought it from New Jersey some eighteen years ago, having 

 obtained it from the garden of a French gentleman named Paul 

 H. Provost, in Kingswood township, Hunterdon Co., N. J. It 

 was known in that vicinity as the " Italian wine grape," and had 

 been received by Mr. Provost many years before from a bro- 

 ther residing in Italy. 



By some German wine-growers in Cincinnati, it has been 

 thought to be Traminer, and by others the Red Resting, two 

 celebrated wine grapes of Germany, to which its fruit bears a 

 strong resemblance, but from which, in wood and foliage, it is 

 as distinct as any of our native grapes. Mr. Thomson thinks it 

 must have been an accidental seedling that sprang up in that 

 garden, as it is free from blight and mildew, never prematurely 

 losing its leaves, and seeming to luxuriate in our climate, which 

 cannot be said of any foreign variety with which we are ac- 

 quainted. Bunch small, very compact, and generally shoulder- 

 ed. Berries smallish, round when not compressed. Skin thin, of 

 a beautiful light-red or flesh colour, very translucent, passing to 

 wine colour by long keeping, It is without hardness or acidit Tr 



