160 DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES.' 



ford Prolific, Creveling, Adirondac, Israella, 

 and Ives's Seedling. 



ISABELLA. 



Description of Varieties. The Isabella, o 

 southern origin, may be said to be the mother of 

 American grape culture. She performed her 



Fig. 98. Leaf of Isabella. 



work faithfully and well, and we would there- 

 fore speak tenderly of her faults. A genera- 

 tion has grown up around her, some of them 

 far less comely than she, but others of great 

 delicacy, refinement, and beauty. The Isabella 



