DESCRIPTION OF VAKIETIES. 



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seem to resist the Phylloxera as well as most 

 Labrusca varieties ; the Salem can be propagated 

 from cuttings with remarkable ease, and its 

 vigor of growth in the shoots has hardly a par- 

 allel among Hybrids. Wood rather firm with 

 a moderate pith. 



Ricketts' Seedling Grapes. Mr. J. H. 

 Ricketts of Newburgh, N. Y., has worked 

 for the last eight years or more, with an en- 

 ergetic desire to produce by hybridization, 

 some better grapes for out-door or vineyard 

 culture in this country, than any we have, and 

 his collection of new seedlings, (now 75 in num- 

 ber) is really remarkable both for great variety 

 and superior quality, but as he does not grow 

 them on a large scale himself, nor put them 

 on the market that others may do so, their 

 hardiness and productiveness has not been 

 tested ; to judge by what we have heard from 

 the few who were favored with some grafts, 

 we fear they are not hardy, and are very much 

 subject to rot. But this may apply only to his 

 hybrids, congenerous with foreign varieties, 

 while some of his crosses between purely native 

 varieties may be quite hardy and healthy. We 

 certainly wish it, for we can testify to the great 

 excellence in quality of those of Mr. Ricketts' 

 seedlings which we were allowed to taste at the 

 meeting of the Am, Pomological Society at 

 Boston (Sept. 1873). Most of them are desig- 

 nated only by numbers; (Clinton No. 3 and 24 ; 

 Nos. 32 and 157 similar to white Chasselas; 

 Nos. 71 A and 87 B, white, with a delicate 

 Muscat flavor; No. 48, seedling from Delaware, 

 and No. 12 B, we regarded as the most promis- 

 ing, and we offered $100 for two young vines of 

 each of them, but Mr. Ricketts desires to sell 

 the Stock.* Those which have been named, so 

 far, will be found in this catalogue, with such 

 descriptive notes as we could obtain. 



Secretary. Obtained by J. H. Ricketts, 

 Newburgh, N. Y., by crossing th Clinton 

 with Muscat Hamburgh. Vine vigorous, 

 hardy. Bunch large, moderately compact, 

 shouldered, with a large, black, roundish 

 oval "berry. Its peduncle red at the base when 

 drawn from the berry. Flesh juicy, sweet, 

 meaty, slightly vinous. Must 93 saccharo- 

 meter; 73^ per mill. acid. Foliage like Clin ten 

 but thicker, and about the same size. 



Schiller. One of Muench's seedlings of 

 the ^Louisiana. Vine perfectly hardy, a vig- 

 orous grower, healthy and, so far, more pro- 

 ductive than} iie other seedlings. Fruit of a purplish 

 blue color, but light juice; otherwise quite similar to 

 his Humboldt. 



Seneca. Very similar to (it not identical with) 

 Hartford. First exhibited at Hammondsport, N. Y., 

 m October, 1867, by Mr. K. Simpson, of Geneva, N. Y. 

 Highly recommended by T. S. flubbard. N. Y.,not 

 known in the West. 



* We are just notified (February, 187.")), that Messrs. 

 Hauce & Sons have purchased the entire stock of several 

 of these new seedling grapes for propagation. 



St. Catherine. (Labr.) Raised by James W. 

 Clark, Framingham, Mass. Bunch large, rather com- 

 pact berries large, chocolate color, rather sweet, tough, 

 foxy. Not of much value. Downing. 



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Scuppernong. Synonym: YELLOW MUSCADINE, 

 WHITE MUSCADINE,* BULL, BULLACE, or BULLET, 

 ROANOKE, (Vitis Vulpinaor V. Rotundifolm). This is 

 purely and exclusively a southern grape; in South Car- 

 olina, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and in 

 parts of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Ar- 



*The black or purple grapes of this class are often incor- 

 rectly called ''Black Pcuppemon?. " Southern horticultur- 

 ists designate them by different names: Flowers, Mish, 

 Thomas, etc. 



