BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Janesville. 
THE IVES GRAPE. 
cea and of tolerably hard texture. 
Liber thick but firm; pushes 
rapidly and oad good resistance to the Phyl- 
loxera ; it nevertheless did not succeed at a 
in southern France. It does not seem to bea 
ly bearer, four-year old vines of this varity 
producing the first crop; however, it bear 
profusely when older. The Ives wine has a 
most beautiful deep red color, but a foxy taste 
and odor. Must 80°, 
Jaeger’s selected Estivalis varieties. Fif. 
a ago, Herman Jaeger, of Nzosno, southwest 
uraged by the ihe 
‘with which hohida hiss Maciek viewed them (espe- 
new spongioles | 
cially the NzosHo sa Far West), and desirous of 
finding or produce superior varieties of this 
hardy and healthy lank - grapes (belonging to what 
we ¢ of 
nated by numbers; 
(Aug., 1883) the following brief notes on those which 
he considers the most promising: 
No. 9—bunch large; berry below medium, fine, 
juicy, pure sweet; very prolific; rots in sultry 
her. 
wea 
No. — sized bunch and berry, very sweet, 
with a peculiar, very fine flavor; fruit healthy, 
so mates 
No. 13—size of bunch and berry like Ives ; a marvel 
pes, a ng og better wine can be produced 
from this (No. 
No. po aecran iis berries medium, good, sweet, 
and h 
No. 32 laa and berry of medium size, very sweet, 
rry cha saber: 
a-like ma. 
finest 268 ored grape I know; sickaalins 
ied health 
No. 48—bun ae and berry of Concord size; very pro- 
ductive and he ei ; May prove a valuable wine 
arket- 
No. 52—of still eats size; promis 
H. Jaeger, ina letter to V. Pulliat ( Sualy, 1883), writes 
that he al of Cordifolia 
d ie pred 
0 
08g be perfectly resisting to the Phylloxera.* 
wish him best success. 
Fasaeae: eae Jack, pinky Spanish ( Ohio, 
Cigar Boz, &¢.) See Len 
esville. es xX RF: He by mart supposed to 
wee across of Hartford and Ciacies An earl 
now generally discarded for better varieties. Vine 
vigorous a — ealthy, and productive; 
pact; me to large, b 
skin thick; he: pulpy: ; quality about like Hartford; 
colors even earlier than this variety, but fully ripe at 
a 
ed member of the French 
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interesting soot 
vigoro 
Stecmn 3 roots emp 
defy drought even in less than ordinary soils. 
