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dered. Berry below medium, from three eighths to one half an 

 inch in diameter, round, pale red. Flesh very juicy, with little 

 or no pulp. Flavour saccharine and delicious, quality " best" for 

 an out-door grape. (Ad. Int. Rep.) 



GARRIGUES. 



Raised by Edward Garrigues Kingsessing, Philadelphia. A 

 vigorous grower, hardy and productive, very much resembles 

 Isabella and no doubt a seedling of it. Bunch large, loose, 

 shouldered. Berries large, oval, dark purple, covered with a 

 thick bloom. Flesh with little toughness in its pulp, juicy, 

 sweet, and rich ripe eight or ten days before Isabella. 



GRAHAM. 



An accidental seedling introduced by Wm. Graham, of Phi- 

 ladelphia. Bunch of medium size, shouldered, not compact. 

 Berry half an inch in diameter, round, purple, thickly covered 

 with a blue bloom, contains little or no pulp, and abounds in 

 saccharine juice of agreeable flavour, quality "best." (Ad. Int. 

 Rep.) 



HARTFORD PROLIFIC. 



Raised by Mr. Steel of Hartford, Conn. Hardy, vigorous, and 

 productive. Bunch large, shouldered, rather compact. Berry 

 large, globular, with a good deal of the native perfume. Skin 

 thick, black, covered with a bloom. Flesh sweet, moderately 

 juicy with considerable toughness and acidity in its pulp ; ripe 

 about ten days before Isabella. 



HERBEMONT. 



"Warren. Warrenton. 

 Herbemont's Madeira. Neal Grape. 



Origin claimed for many localities, but not yet fully ascertain- 

 ed. This is the most rampant grower of all our hardy grapes, 

 and under favourable circumstances yields a fruit of surpassing 

 excellence with which the nicest detector of foxiness, thickness of 

 skin, toughness or acidity of pulp, can find no fault ; north of 

 Philadelphia it needs a warm exposure or favourable season for 

 the full development of all its excellences. In our village under 

 the care of a lady, it has not failed for many years to give a 

 most abundant crop of perfectly ripened fruit, and without pro- 

 tection has not suffered at all from winter killing. A very old 

 vine in Baltimore, which had never before failed to produce 

 abundantly since its first bearing, had, last winter when the mer- 

 cury fell to 19 below zero, all its young wood killed ; but 

 ordinarily in that latitude and further south, it is an unfail- 



