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from it; better than any that we liave seen 

 made from the Delaware, and that is great, 

 praise ; but we have seen wine made from it by 

 others in larger quantity, that was equal to the 

 very best German wines. It has the richness, 

 body, bouquet, and fullness of flavor that 

 belong to the highest class of wines. If 

 the fruit is good, so is the plant. This has 

 now been sufficiently tried, and the testimony 

 is pretty uniform in regard to its hardiness, 

 health, and vigor. It is easily trained, and 

 bears abundant crops of very beautiful fruit. 

 The bunch is just sufficiently open to permit of 

 the ripening of every berry. The skin, too, 

 though thin, has such firmness of texture as to 

 prevent even the ripest berries from bursting 

 and wasting the juice. The fruit may, in conse- 

 quence, be kept without loss till the berries 

 begin to shrivel, when the expressed juice will 

 be found to be exceedingly rich. In young 

 vines, the bunches are sometimes a little loose, 

 especially if the vine is growing with great 

 vigor. We have given a fair description of the 

 vine and its fruit, from which the reader can 

 form an opinion as to its claim to occupy the 

 position we have given it at the head of Amer- 

 ican wine grapes. 



