ae Berry roun 
dy as aces as Hartford Prolific ; skin t 
82 Challenge. BUSHBERG 
CATALOGUE. 
Clinton. 
nial, with our best wishes for its success, for trial in 
localities where its parent, the Eumelan, does not suf- 
ildew 
. Supposed cross between Concord 
early 
bu anaen shoulder arge, 
round berries, pale red, wi with flesh ‘lightly 
pulpy; very sweet and juicy. Extra hardy 
wood and leaf. We consider it purely native, 
yet an excellent dessert and wine grape. 
Syn.: Earnty CHampron, TALMAN’s 
extra n (Am. 
Pom, Soc. 1873, page 66), just sent out for the first time 
by some New Orlean nurserymen. In our Catalogue, 
875 
Lei 
obtain, and said, “We shall try to obtain this new, ex- 
borne its splendid fruit,” and ‘‘ evaded t 
our grape-growers Se & nupaber of 
t R. J. Donnelly at angel 
N. Y., and J. I. Stone at Ct , Monroe Co., 
propagated and disseminated the “Early 
apparently the same grape, before 1873, and that un- 
piled tested, and, a it has 
actually proven a earlie. nd has been 
a very sure and pritabe one to some growers, it is 
so poor i in q a , th 
= 
} hi 
the less 
a <4 at 
nd probably 
soon will be, discarded for better varieties A few w years 
ago it was shipped to Mont treal and o 
kets, esa RORC Kos there hi; 
was found dantly 
the neighborhood of Montreal, young Donnelly, ae 
plant 
ed imped several thousand of his father’s oe on 
vines, and caused them to be planted quite ever! 
in ‘the vicinity. Thus it became known® as the Bea 
consfield sor. It was decidedty a + profitable grape, 
selling at hig 
other gra be had—and until people b ideas 
more meee ay quality. 
The Mi ee is a Strong grower, a and sia 
and very bape eral Bunches lar ge, handsom: 
nd shouldered. riot t Sisk Hck near- 
thick, firm, and 
ip — tothe stem. Ripens nearly one week 
Hartford, but is as poor, if not poorer, in 
: oo named by a by the proprietors of that vineyard 
| tive Fox grape, 
the name of canes as also the Golden. 
as introduced in California 
s there a sateershte failure 
Charlotte. Identical with Diana. 
arse, na_ 
quite worthless, except for size, which 
makes its appearance as attractive as its musky flavor 
is repulsive. 
Charter Oak. (Labr.) <A very large, co 
Christine. 
Claret 
( Telegraph.) 
(?) A seedling of Chas. ase opin, Kelly 
and, 0. Bunch and berry medium ; claret red; acid ;. 
vine viens: not valuable. Downing. 
Clara. Supposed 
worthy of culti- 
orous an me produc- 
vineyard of M. Borty, 
at Roquemare). We 
are inclined to > 
rit thatthe nameis 
correct. The above 
ee as of the Clara 
grape is reduced to one-fourth of natural size (one-half 
diameter). 
Clinton, Syn., WoRTHINGTON. (Riparia.) 
Strong says that, in the year 821, the Hon. 
Hugh White, then in Hamilton College, N.Y., 
planted a seedli of 
become thoroughly ripe. Vigorous, hardy, 
and productive; healthy, but an exceedingly 
rank, straggling grower, and one of the — 
