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22  —_Labrusca. 
-BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
HEstivalis. 
The principal varieties of this species, thus classi- 
are: 
{a] Northern Group. [b] Group. 
Brack Hawk, ADIRONDAC, 
Co ; Cassapy, 
CorracE, CATAWBA, 
Dracut AMBER, a 
Eariy ‘Victor beaded Tona, 
Hartrorp PRo.iri IsaBELLA, 
Ivzs, ISRAELLA, 
arts Lypia, 
oe MaAxXaTawny, 
; Moore's EARty, Mines, 
NortTHERN MUSCADINE, MorttLenp, 
PERKINS, PRENTIss (new), » 
REnNTz, REBEcca, 
TELEGRAPH, To-Katon, 
VENANGO, Union VILLAGE. 
Muicnones os : 
Wokrpen’s. 
This subdivision of Labrusca into a northern and 
southern form is a new idea of our own, and may be a 
mistake. Tt was presented ad the first time in our Cat- 
loxera-infested vine ever does. We have seen very fine 
and healthy Catawba and Isabella vines in full bear- 
ing, in Se localities of France. We 
we pr oving our posi- 
pa tnd + Fame g 
From the j t of the © issi American 
Vines—signed by ; Piola, V' 
Pres’t; er cat bysuch res aa well nity 
inthe anietntifie world, as Millardet, Skavinski, 7 
ic see In a Phylloxeric Congress, held 
1882. 
tt is alantat cara to insist on the acon of the 
American vines. It cannot any longer be cont 
Srery where the proofs Pe, ge numerous. 
th ; planted 
from 10 to 15 years ago, presen a vegetation bf ‘perfect 
health. Even the Lasrusca, reputed as less resistant— 
the vane for instan 
by certai 
got, the Drchess of Wis James, &e., who are well satis- 
ed with th 
ids JisTIVALIS. This 5 species | is educates — 
already accepted or er Mississippi Valley and Texas. wing to ite fact that 
ee ae Eumelan 
qu of consideration and further ebsearch. will ripen north of the parallel of 40°, unless it may be 
in some with regard to the 
_ The large size of the feats the — and productive- 
: ness oft the vine, race propagation from cuttings, 
i 
to. > wr. 
: expected z 
to thereby a ameliorate, if not to remove, their foxiness. 
Whil 
‘plished, the process has diminished the hardiness and 
has increased the ong ta ae to climate and to fun- 
diseases in the varieti s thus us produced. It has 
onan tectng the bet, as in Early Vie- 
£ 4%. 2. 
Niagara (eross between Concord and ae ‘oe 
(cross between Concord and Iona). et 
F habit. t. Lovers of the Concord and of of 
to eat the foxy grape with ‘pleasure. 
ly warieties of the AOR excel- 
lent asa grafting-stock for its own tender varieties, an 
eae of the 
- excellence of the product 
_ tions of fi ates.”—Wm. Sa 
aa 
the Vinifera, in locations cians to this | tain slopes in Virginia, Nort 
are _ little known. The berries are destitute of pulp, 
and the juice contains a larger percentage it eer 
than ay ane oot American species. #The foli- 
ag to disease as that of the fox grape, 
and in the berries rot is also less prevailing, while in 
some varieties of this class, as Norton’s Va. and Cone 
thiana, it is ivi known. Some of the best 
wines made in this country are produced from varie- 
an 
ties of this family. 
ae climate for their perfection, they have not yet been 
abrusca. 
xtended so widely as the varieties of Vitis L. 
Their range of successful growth not reaching into 
high latitudes, their culture has been limited,” —ex- 
pike a) Va. , of which hundreds of 
planted pee Gordonsville and Char- 
uate Va. —‘‘Tam convinced that neither the wine- 
producing capabilities a the country nor the hi 
ean be decided until vine- 
yards of these oe are established in the best loca- 
Saunders. 
“« The most most genial home of this species is the coun- 
try of the Ozark hills, Missouri, $. Kansas, nsas, 
Texas and Indian Territory; probably also the moun- 
rth Carolina, and Tennes- 
see. An d these net be looked wpon as the 
Ae the Rocky 
Mountains, for a certain class of. ‘fine 2 wines. In western. 
Texas, also, the varieties belonging to this class seem 
“to succeed better than any other class of grapes,’ 
* Their proper ot hago eBay nn ant = 
i Pig napeigicand June, Fagg flips semaine: : : 
a season to 
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