DESCRIPTION OF YAKIETIES. 



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Senasqua. A hybrid raised by 

 Stephen Underbill, Croton Point, N. 

 Y., from Concord and Black Prince. 

 Seed was planted in 1863 and tbe vine 

 bore its first fruit in 1865. Bunch and 

 berry varying from medium to large ; 

 the bunch is very compact, so much so, 

 as to cause the berries to crack ; color 

 black with blue blaom; quality best. 

 The fruit has the peculiar fleshy char- 

 acter of certain foreign grapes, with a 

 brisk, vinous flavor. The vine is vig- 

 orous and productive, in rich soil ; 

 moderately hardy. The leaf is very 

 firm, and shows no trace of foreign or- 

 igin, except when it ripens, at which 

 time, instead of the yellow of the Con- 

 cord it takes on the crimson color of 

 the mature leaf of the Black Prince. 

 With us, at Bushberg, it did not suc- 

 ceed so well, and is not near as desira- 

 ble as Underbill's new grapes, the 

 Black Eagle and Black Defiance. The 

 originator himself does not recommend 

 the Senasqua as a profitable grape for 

 market purposes, as it is rather late in 

 ripening (a few days after Concord), 

 but only as a fine and valuable ama- 

 teur fruit. As such it is of first rank, 

 "of the highest quality to those who 

 appreciate life and brilliancy in a 

 grape." We give in annexed figure, 

 the likeness of a medium-sized cluster. 



Taylor or Bullit. (often called Taylor's 

 Bullit,) (Cord.) Introduced to notice by Judge 

 Taylor, of Jericho, Henry County, Kentucky. 

 It is generally considered very unproductive. 

 It seems that the vines of this variety require 

 age, and spur pruning on old wood to make it 

 produce well. Mr. Husmann says : 



"Give the vine plenty of 'room and plenty to 

 do, i. e., prune it long and we think it will bear 

 satisfactory crops when four years old." 



We tried it in vain. 



Mr. Samuel Miller suggests to plant the Clin- 

 ton among Taylor to fertilize them, but we find 

 the benefits resulting from this system also in- 

 sufficient to balance its many inconveniences ; 

 and yet we have seen Taylor vines grown by 

 themselves on the "Souche" plan (the shape of 

 a small weeping- willow tree, allowing the canes 

 to grow from the top and not from the base of 

 the main trunk, spur pruning in winter but not 

 suppressing the growth by summer pruning) 

 produce from 5 to 10 Ibs. per vine. The bunches 



SENASQUA. 



are small, but compact and sometimes shoul- 

 dered; berry small, white to pale amber, turn- 

 ing even to pale red, like Delaware when 

 perfectly ripe, round, sweet and without pulp. 

 Skin translucent, very thin but tough. Vine a 

 very strong, rampant grower, healthy and very 

 hardy. Roots comparatively few, wiry and 

 very tough, with a thin, hard liber. The young 

 spongioles will push as rapidly as the Phyllox- 

 era can destroy them ; hence .this variety pos- 

 sesses great power of resistance to the insect. 

 Its wine is of good body and fine flavor, more 

 closely resembling the celebrated Riesling of 

 the Rhine than perhaps any other of our Amer- 

 ican varieties. Some very promising seedlings 

 of the Taylor are now introduced. See Elvira. 



Telegraph. (La.br.) A seedling raised by 

 a Mr. Christine, near Westchester, Chester Co., 

 Pa., and named by P. R. Freas, editor of 

 the Germantown Telegraph (one of the best 

 agricultural papers in the East). An attempt 



