416 Lenoir. . 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Lady Charlotie. 
mark: .‘ the leaf and habit ey resemble 
those of. the Black Spanish.” From this 
mark, and from the description of the “‘ Ohio”’ 
in Down ning’s ‘‘Fruits and Fruit-trees of Amer. 
ica,’’ we were strongly, inclined to believe “Le 
noir,’”’ ‘ Black Spanish,’’ ‘‘ Ohio,’’ ‘‘ Jacques”’ 
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“I had been diligently collecting every Zisti- |: 
_ valis grape of promise I could find or hear of, 
believing that from this family must come our 
grapes in Texas. I had a grape called Lenore. 
I found that Berckmans had a different grape 
under the same nam that he insisted 
upon my Lenoir being the “ Black ealy” (or 
Devereux) ; so I sent for his Lenoir, and found — 
that it resembled in growth and. habit the’ 
Black Spanish—so much so, that I supposed a | 
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mistake must have been made and that he 
had sent me the Black Spanish instead of the 
Lenoir.” 
“T had somehow got the idea that the a 
originated in Lenoir county, S.C. te to 
Berckmans for further information and re- 
ceived his reply under date of Aug. 17, sas We 
which he says: ‘The Lenoir and Black § 
both have colored juice. The Le 
. has its bunches compact and shouldered ; ee 
‘ Black Spanish, on the contrary, has the bunch 
‘ very loose, cylindrical, growing to a length of } ~ 
inches. Of the two, it makes the darkest i 
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colored wine. Bet are, perhaps, the best 
‘xed-wine grapes w * Th ir 
& originated in Fae Carolina, the Black Span- 
‘ish in Natchez, Miss." 
“IT would say,” continues Mr. Onderdonk, 
“that here (in S.W. Texas) the bunches of the 
Black Spanish, though remarkably long, have 
=a yet reached a length of more than 10 or 
| inches. I also found hat, under a care- 
res System of summer 
oe Pa have. sometimes gen 
ae whether. ay Boy ai in the fruit. between 
oe e two varieties; on my premises, is, after 
: a aay greater than even my. Black Seaniah 
_ differs from itself, or rather that the crops of 
di ene Teese tol, drome nah ther | 
the Lenoir itself.” 
fe: "en t, years 
Ts porate 
the strength of our supposition, at once ordered 
thousands of. ts from the Black Spanish, 
and 0 in Franeée, a an exhorbitant 
price, as the ast elaimin, ts discovery for 
himself. . 
ty, gave great satisfaction. The 
identity of the ose Black Spanish and Lenoir 
was there also y established by Prof. Plan- 
chon, | Pulli at, 
As this variety cannot be successfully gro 
in our vineyards on account of its recat 
ance to mildew and to frost, we requested our 
friend Onderdonk to test and observe it, and 
he now writes us (August, 1883), “Iam ‘golfd 
on this Lenoir matter now, and have at last be- 
come settled in the belief ‘that Jacques, eS 
and Black Spanish are identical beyond do 
this variety is capable of very great ation 
under various special conditions.” 
In France, also, the success and especially 
the productiveness of the Jacques varies very 
much; in dry bap it yields far less wine, un- 
less irrigation is resorted to. Of late years, the 
Jacques (as it's there still called) has suffered 
: sections ae the anthracnose. France 
has now more aring-vines of this variety 
than ean parol oer the United States, 
i there is no demand for cuttings of 
facques wine n ells in France at 60 to 70 
cs per heetolitre, while their Aramon wine 
rings only 30 francs at the same places. It is 
ery rich aero. and in color. 
late ae 
engraving represents a medium 
sized bunch of the Lenoir. smaller than 
= soe much shcater. 
