‘128 Ohio. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Othello. 
_@ traveler, whose name was never obtained, carried 
: Ci re he 
ried from ae State without yet aname, took the name 
-of Ohio ose thus ot ae 
authoritative name hada 
it from a pore who easnad it 
m Berckmans, in Georgia, as the Cigar-box. I af- 
terwards heard of the Black Spanish as a wonderful 
i geo and | sds it from xas, 
n found it identical 
with the where T got got afterwards information from 
I cannot now remember from whom I 
and of the 
as I huve stated; but 
Iam altogether satisfi “(fro xamining the matter 
‘for several years) of the Slectley of Black Spanish 
_Jacquez, Cigar-box, and Ohio. 
anal |g otis is any valuable ic between the 
ir, it isin favor of the latter.” 
rdo: 
én 
L 2 om, + 
names of Black Spanish, El Paso, Jacquez, 
to be ahybr. seedling of Merrimack 
0.19), raised by Thacker, of Oneida Co., N. 
Y., who or that the vine bore its } first age in the 
‘fall of 1875, when fi str ealthy 
grower, free from disease of any kind thus 3 wood 
eet jointed, and ripens = a good bearer; bune 
um size, evenly shoul 
_ 
vine eradaally from the 10th 
: roe and does not drop 
from the stem. A.M. iad Pal myra, N. Y., who in- 
s this sort on iption, to be doltversi 
in the yc 1884, ‘thinks that the Oneida will prove 
Onondaga. A seedling originated in fen ol 
_ Ville, Sesodain o., N.Y.; a cross between th 
xan § the Delaware ; said fo comsine some deqer ais 
and to be alate keeper. appearance is certainly 
a ik prove i 
to give a fine crop; last year I picked eleven hundred 
ood bunches from one vine five years old. It is an 
have found So Oporto to - 
yield of very good win 
y 
ihe difference bod opinion is wiiidoatabie: no doubt, 
ri giragid shistose (slaty) 
soil the Oporto tourshes oe while uyvial pe 
loses its foliage. In some parts of Pies it is used as 
a Phylloxera-resisting cahad stock. 
Bingen (Arnold’s Hybrid No. 1.) 
isis : : 
Skin thin, the flesh very solid but not pulpy; 
flavor pureand sprightly, butin thespecimens __ 
he 
we have see 
Delaware.” 
nrather acid. Ripening with t 
have just received the 
OrHEtto as follows: (Translation.) 
Vine vigorous, of half-erect growth. Cane of medium 
eta somewhat slender, round, shining, and but lit- : 
le wrinkled; of yellowish-brown colorwhen the wood 
: to sie 
= ripe, darker on the nodes exp 
the sun; with elongated internodes, heavily striated; 
intermittent 2-forked tendrils. Buds covered with rus- 
set hair, not numero gearly. Inopen 
the buds become whitish and show the flower-bunches 
fringed by afine wooly with a e bord 
m the surrounding foliage, which opens and exp: 
rosy 
glandular. Foliage large wh 
se tufts on the lower veins. Leaf-stalk very short, 
robust, and forming an obtuse angle with the mei 
its emi me boaaonn 
oe 
ographie Ameéricaine,’”’ of which we se 
first number, describes bes 
in terms which we Biante Ben ja brains’ then 
of the bunch with its teeny and grag 
a thee their size, ima tie 
Passes where and. how it succeeds, &e 
able a as wo expected. 
er) re ee il the ; Black E 
