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ing bearer, and particularly fitted for those southern latitudes 

 that are liable to injury from late frosts in spring and early 

 frosts in autumn, as it flowers very late and ripens its fruit 

 early. Its leaves in autumn are the last to yield to frost, re- 

 maining perfectly green and vigorous after all others have 

 withered or fallen, consequently it has often an amount of 

 unripened wood >vhich should be cut off before winter. 



Bunch very large and exceedingly compact, shouldered. Ber- 

 ries below medium, round, dark blue, or violet, covered with a 

 thick light bloom. Skin thin, which is filled with a sweet, rich, 

 vinous, aromatic juice, of so little consistence, that it cannot be 

 called flesh. 



Lenoir^ Long, Devereaux, and Thurmond. — Under the above 

 names, grapes much resembling in character the Herbemont, are 

 grown in the Southern states, and we have hitherto considered 

 them synonymous of it ; but all our southern friends claim that 

 Lenoir is a distinct variety, and much earlier than any of the 

 others, and also at least that some of the others are distinct. 

 The matter is now under investigation, and we must wait the 

 result before deciding. 



Hudson. 



Originated in the garden of Mr. Calkins, Hudson, N. Y. 

 Growth similar to Isabella, and said to be two or three weeks 

 earlier. Bunch and berry much the same, but less sprightly 

 and not quite so rich. 



Hyde's Eliza. 



Bunch medium, compact, often with a small shoulder. Berry 

 medium size, round, black, covered with a thin, light bloom. 

 Flesh tolerably juicy, somewhat buttery, with a pleasant vinous 

 flavour. Ripe a few days before Isabella. 



Isabella. Prin. Ken. Adlum. 



This very popular grape, a native of South Carolina, was 

 brought to the north and introduced to the notice of cultivators 

 about the year 1818, by Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, the wife of George 

 Gibbs, Esq., in honour of whom it wjis named. Its great vigour, 

 hardiness, and productiveness, with the least possible care, have 

 caused it to be most widely disseminated. A vine growing 

 here has borne 12 bushels of grapes in a single year. It is, per- 

 haps, a little more hardy, and ripens earlier than the Catawba, 

 which renders it valuable at the northern part of this state, or 

 the colder portion of New-England. No farmer's garden, how- 

 ever small, should be without this and the Catawba. 



Bunches of good size — five to seven inches long^ rather 



