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other vines, and bears only from the old, and not from the 

 current shoots, as do other grapes. The leaves are cor- 

 date, or heart-shaped, coarsely serrate, smooth on both 

 upper and under surfaces. It blooms from the 15th to 

 the last of June, and ripens its fruit the last of September 

 and beginning of October. It has no diseases, in wood, 

 leaf, or fruit, and rarely, if ever, fails to produce a heavy 

 crop. We have never knpwn it to fail. 



It will produce a greater weight of fruit than any other 

 variety in the world. The clusters vary in size from two 

 to twenty berries, and the berries in size from three-fourths 

 of an inch "to one inch and a quarter in diameter. 



Vines, six years transplanted, have this year given us 

 an average of three bushels to each vine, and we shall be 

 disappointed if they do not double every year for many 

 years in the future. It is the sweetest and most luscious 

 of any grape we have ever seen or tasted ; makes a fine, 

 heavy, high-flavored, fruity wine, and is peculiarly adapted 

 to making foaming wines. The vine should be trained on 

 an arbor or scaffold, and should have ample room to 

 spread ; for, if it becomes matted, it dies in the interior, 

 and fails to produce fruit ; give it room to spread itself, 

 and it will do so, both in vine and fruit. The directions 

 before given for making wine apply also to this ; it re- 

 quires one and a half pound of clarified sugar to one 

 gallon of juice. 



We are credibly informed that a vine of this variety is 

 growing near Mobile which has produced two hundred 

 and fifty bushels of grapes in a year, and we know that 

 vines ten years old have given and will give thirty bushels 

 per vine. A bushel of this grape will give from three 

 to three and a half gallons of juice, according to ripeness. 



The aroma given off by this grape, when ripening, is 

 of honied sweetness, and very fragrant and delicious ; it 

 can be detected for some considerable distance. Neither 



