ton will succeed here 
when the db 
Norton. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Ohio. 127 
become the great and leading variety for red 
wine not merely in Missouri, where its superior 
qualities were first appreciated and brought 
out in full splendor, and in its native State, 
Virginia, where it is of late receiving great at- 
tention, hundreds of acres being planted in 
the years 1880-83, with this most valuable va- 
riety for wine,—but, far and near, in many sec- 
tions of this country, and even in some parts of 
France where American vines are planted. 
The Norton, with its ieee: the Cynthi- 
ana, is now recognized by all is Spaces 
grape-growers as the most reliable and bes 
wine grape of America. It is also found nc 
lent in some parts of France; in others ‘it does 
not succeed as well, and its yield is considered 
insufficient. Except in size of berry, it has also 
most qualities of a very good table grape; it is 
sweet and spicy, and is unexcelled asa long 
per. 
The illustration of the Cynthiana, page 89, 
equally serves as a good representation of the 
Norton-grape. 
The bunch of the Norton is long, compact, 
and shouldered ; derry small, black, with dark 
bluish-red juice, almost without pulp when 
; d 
ere when well-established, but ‘very 
impatient of transplanting, and exceedingly 
difficult to propagate. Roots tough and wiry. 
Liber thin and; yaad, of great resistance to the 
ough and perfect ripening of its fruit, the Nor- 
in almost any. soil ; but, 
in the fall, the vine is liable to suffer from. se- 
- vere cold. during the succeeding winter. In 
rich bottoms it comes early into bearing and is 
on high hills with 
- enormously productive ; 
richest wine, of great body and superior medi- 
It has quite a peculiar coffeine 
t first seems unpleasant to 
coffee, endears itself to 
2 raised ts 
oe yy: — by ste Peete <e at Hermann, 
These and the white ei AD nn seedling (see 
Hermann) are the first white Mstivalis we 
know of ; eee a cross with 
is remedy here for neon, and dis- 
ea eo czars 
, and 
| Leaves large: tri-lobed. 
brusea. They are very late, ripening even later 
than Norton’s, and thus will not be adapted 
to locations north of St. Louis, but may be 
the more valuable for the south. 
sgh ta nepal A new igi owned by gees 
Jo Woe rwood, Mass., ee ee 
believe, by i Mr. White, of same p 
in the fall of 1880, before the Mass. olen ae: = 
it received a first-class certificate of merit for some 
than Concord ; is claim 
hardy than any of Seu’ hybrids, and in cusiny 
from good to best, much superior to the Concord. Not 
Ohi Syn., Sre@ar-Box, LonewortnH’s OunrIo, 
(Biack SPANISH ALABAMA?), isnow supposed to be 
identical with t. or “ Jack”’ introduced 
iard of the name of Jacques. It used grown in 
Ohio, where the originated from a few cuttings 
left in a segar-box, am some unknown person, at the 
residence of Longworth, of Cincinnati, Ohio. This va- 
riety attrac! attention for some time 
on account of its large, long bunches (often ten to fi 
teen inches a mge08 loose, tapering, shouldered), 
and its good quali ts berries are small nd; skin 
thin; purple sre a ia bloom ; flesh tender, melting, 
without pulp, brisk and yinous. The wood is strong, 
long- jointed, lighter red than that of the Norton’s 
Vi 
bearer, but soon mildew and rot affected it so badly 
that it was of no use, even when pon 
with protection. Downing (“Fruit & Fruit-trees. re 
Am.” said, he is most likely Peat sort, and, ex- 
growth, and ee as of the same FAMILY as 
mont, Lenoir, h, and that class of small, 
black. southern grapes.”’ Samuel Miller, of Bluffton, 
4., writes us: “The Segar-box, or a 
i § Thad in the East for eu but ney: perfect 
was not h vine, palo e fruit both 
PgR and rotted.”’ 
When ripe it is an excellent grape. A few vines sent 
ago, under ae nen of ‘‘ Jacques or - Obio, vt 
France, by P. J. Be s, of Georgia, proved very 
fine and "valuable, grnrect resisting Phy — 
having rem: thy in the midst of 
destroyed by the root-louse. Lenoir.) . 
In Aug., 1876, G. Ond — gave us the subjoined _ 
information concerning supposed identity of the 
5 , Ohio, ond Jaca eZ : 
“ There iived at N; 
Spaniard by 
grape t towhich he gave no name. 
- 
grape; others called. it the Spanish or Black Spanish = 
' the old Spaniard’s 's garden. 
La- but simply to designate it as old Jacquez’s noon - - 
hez, in Mississippi, an old 
div bam’ a Jacquez. ee BS 
