92 Delaware. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Downing. 
beautiful light red or purplish-maroon, covered 
with a thin whitish bloom, and very translu- 
cent. It is without harshness or acidity in its 
pulp, exceedingly sweet, but sprightly, vinous 
and aromatic. Ripens early, pris eight days 
later than Hartford Prolific. Quality best, for 
the table as well as for wine. meee 100°-118°. 
’ Acid 5 to 6 per mill. 
When the former editions of this Catalogue 
were published, seedlings from Delaware and 
its crosses ‘Wi othe: t varietien were but little 
kno d been 
mado to raise — ee | to pro- 
ger 
only in size of bunch and berries, ee of th the qua- 
lity of the Delaware, seemed doomed to disap- 
pointment. Most of its seedlings showed more 
or less of the “ Fox grape.’ This fact and other 
characteristics (see Manual—Table of Grape 
Seeds, &c.) convince us of its origin, in part, 
from this species, although many eminent hor- 
ticulturists and botanists class the Delaware 
with _#stivalis (others with Ri It is 
true that the Delaware leaf seems more closely 
allied to Hstivalis; its wood is harder, more 
difficult to propagate, and the tendrils are not 
continuous (nor are they regularly intermit- 
tent) ; but we find a remarkable parallel case 
in “ §, rd’s Delaware,” raised from seed 
of Catawba by J. N. Sheppard, in 1852. From 
im Charles received it, with its 
history, and says, “‘the vine and fruit are simi- 
lar in all respects to Delaware.”” The “WHITE 
Labruseas have been prod 
_ Ducwess. (See Deser. of this Var.; also List C 
sa ge in arp 
el ha& lately produced a Brack 
oS asm seedling which is very early, of 
— tae , and may become valuable, as it 
«seems to do well in ig ee and soils —— 
_ the old Delaware fails. Two White Se 
of mae Ae one — KALISTA, the mae 
Don J 
much ks its parent Jona. 
Devereux. (Zst.) Syn., Buack Juny, Lin- 
COLN,? BLUE GRAPE, SHERRY, THURMOND, 
Harr, TuLeyY, McLEAN, Husson (LENOIR, 
incorrectly; the name BLACK JuLY is also- 
objectionable, being used by English ampelo- 
graphs for the ISCHIA NorR, or NOIR DE JUIL- 
LET, a PINEAU Variety— Vinifera—with which 
the DeveREUX has no resemblance.) A south- 
ern grape; belongs to the same class as Herbe- 
mont and Cunningham. Where this variety 
will succeed it is one of ‘our Bees wie grapes, 
Ttis 
hite 
prod ucing a 
somewhat subject to mildew, very tender, sad 
Bunch long, loose, slightly 
shouldered ; berry black, below medium, round; 
skin fine, tender: flesh meaty, juicy, without. 
nade and vinous; quality best. Vine a strong 
gro and, when free from mildew, moder- 
Shaky productive ; wood long-jointed, purpliah- 
wh at first, of deeper purplish-red when 
ripe; with bi-forked, intermittent tendrils — 
these, as also the leaf-stalk, are tinged on their 
base with apurplish-brown hue, like the young 
size, entire (not lobed), considerably wrinkled, 
turgid, with somewhat abundant hair-tufts on 
_ the lower veins. 
uan. One of Rickett’s Hybrid Secdines, 
F. R. Elliott says: ‘* It 
is T than any wn hardy grape of its color; is 
about the size, in berry, of Rogers’ 15, a deeper color, 
a and ch; the flesh i 
| Sweet andsparkling.” (See “Rickett’s Seedlings.’’) 
A Hybrid ob- 
at Downing, © 
| tained by Tames HE Ricketts, Newburgh, N. Y., from 
ueed, especially the 
the Croton fertilized by Black H aniburg. “ Bunches 
berries 
large, sometimes shouldered ; 
is first rate, being sweet, with just enough sp 
aued to prevent cloying the palate,””"—. 
foliage. Its parents forebode the r  Teverse. peencrs 
to other reports. ella crossed 
— _Muscat-Hamburg. It _ an 2 unamaly 10D long 
Mt Ricketts: ‘must ust have ei it highly, else he 
Pomologist. But it is not disseminated. 
