100 Excelsior. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Flower of Missouri. 
early ping before the Hartford Prolific) and 
evenly to the center. Flavor very pure and 
refined, very , tich and vinous, with a 
large degree of that refreshing quality that be- 
longs distinctively to the best foreign wine 
grapes. Roots abundant, thick, spreading, and 
of medium toughness; liber thick but firm 
Vine a strong grower, producing yemaskably 
, firm its 
Eleinburg), fey though subject to mildew 
unfavorable OK Nh we can recommend ice as 
a very fine earl 
The American duct Annual for 1869 
us, near New York, remarkably healthy in fo- 
liage, and has taken several premiums as the 
best black grape at several exhibitions.”’ 
reports came from many localities, that 
it had failed to meet public expectations. 
ed severely from mildew, and 
since then they have not fully recuperated. 
Perhaps with no other variety is it so import- 
ant to set out only good and strong plants in the 
first place, as with this one; and we think that 
umelan makes a superior red wine (ac- 
cording to Mottier, North-East, Pa., — oi 
ee ee 
tite ee LLG 
as 104°, with only 4 per mille acid), 
y Bhp cre seneme 
wa | Py ee | , lobed, t. 
Florenc 
i ion Village m. and Eumelan f., ori 
Faith. (Rip. <) One of Jacob Rommel’s very 
promising Taylor Seedlings. Vine a vigorous, 
ealthy grower, oS productive of long- 
shouldered m size bunches ; berries small 
to medium, witie or pale amber colored ; ; juicy, 
sweet, and purely flavored. Ripens very early, 
with or before the Hartford. Regarded by Rom- 
mel as one of his best varieties, anne as not sub- 
ject to mildew and rot. 
ar West. (st.) The Nestor of Western grape 
culture, the late nigra Muench (died in 1881), re- 
ceived from time to s for testing of Mr. 
Herman Yaeger (N ibe. Mo. ), who makes it his task 
to explore the forests of south- saat Missouri for 
wild vines. Among these was a feeble graft which 
fruited sevacsl years, and ast fonished him by the 
delicacy of the aroma of the ame, SO 
much so that he letcada it ‘the sg valuable soqae 
ee, one “likely to inaugurate a n of viticul- 
ture.’ He honored it by the name ‘** Far West,’’ his 
own literary nome de plume. 
Muench described it as follows: 
ms 
“Vingof most vigor- 
y 
fectly hardy, resisting (in my experime 
all in the most unfavorable seasons. Bunches 
shouldered and of good size. Berries somewhat larger 
than Norton’s ; skin very to 
bloom. 
wine so mild, 
and yet at the same time fiery and aromatic, as to sur- 
pass (to my taste) all other known wines. quires a 
long season, blooming and ripening its fruit very late, 
contemporaneo 
standard variety succeeds the Far West may be confi- 
dently planted. Its propagation from cuttin 
almost impossible, but should be done by layering; 
the layers, however, not to be separated from the 
mother-yine until after summer.” 
Flora. (Labr.) Origin Philadelphia, a Bunch 
compact ; berry small, roundish, oval, purplish- 
Flesh somewhat pulpy, acid at usaen: juicy, 
vinous. Ripens about with Isabella. Vine hardy and 
productive.—Downing. 
e. (Labr.) Probably & CTOs between Un- 
ted by Marine. 
ity; bunch 
large, with some of the Isabella character. Discarded. 
LACK MUSCADINE. (V.. Rotund.) 
honk ve sckkeoa feeds 
banc of ts high quality and beanty, ust chea 
one bunch to to a shoot. 
grown by Wm. Poeschel, ] Not dissem- 
inated ad probebly never wil be. It possesses both 
the excellence and the defects of“ Walter.”” = 
