Diana. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Dunlap. 93 
Diana. (Labr.) A seedling of 
Catawba, raised by Mrs. Diana 
Crehore (who still lives, at the 
age of 87!), Milton, Mass.; first 
exhibited in 1843, before the Mas- 
sachusetts Horticultural Socie- 
ty. Fuller justly remarks: 
‘There is probably no one va- 
riety of grape in cultivation in 
regard to which there i isa greater 
entirely worthless. This differ- 
ence is often observable in the 
same garden, and from no ap- 
parent cause.”’ 
The Diana seems to do best in 
warm, rather dry and poor soil ; 
y clay or sandy loam 
ms best suited to its wants. 
Is reported to do remarkably 
well in Georgia. Bunches me- 
dium compact, occasional- 
ly shouldered ; berries medium 
size, round, pals red, covered 
wit thin lilac blovtin : flesh 
tender, with some pulp, sweet, 
but long and. thick, soft in tex- 
ture, and with a thick liber; 
canes heavy and long, with few laterals, and 
a@ very large pith. It is not as productive, 
Eastern grape-grow 
be vabuatae also for wine. 
acid 12. 
DIANA. 
Draent Amber. (Zabr.) Originated by J. W- 
Manning, Dracut, Mass. Vi ; 
Regarded by us as but a slightly improved 
wild Fox grape; very early and productive. 
Bunch large and long, compact, often shoul- 
dered ; berries large, round ; skin thick, of pale 
varieties, quite similar, and but very little, if 
any better, me continually in uced. (See 
Wyoming R 
weer ba ls eka a fine red 
disseminated. 
: Not 
