Sete Of na tea 
Othello. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Poughkeepsie. 129 
they with us as good in quality as Arnold’s 
other hybrids. 
In France, however, the Othello ort ee 
well, is enormously pr 
3 at 
resisted for the last eight years in the midst of a Phyl- 
loxera-infested district, and wherever t ar 
pro gg ates ten kly Tesiatent the inse 
gricultural ae of the ca 
rault, ‘hela on ai the dth, 6th and 7th of March, 1883, 
ucceeded admirably, and 
of those which ‘is kept for himself he was offered last 
ear 1500 francs per 1,000 cuttings ; such offers he could 
well refuse, and the purchasers thanked him be- 
oat 
M. Proxa also stated that his Othellos were prosper- 
pering ; 300 tb, hae third summer, gave him 
i Some consider the Othello wine the most 
reinarkable of ioeices wines; that it is destined to 
take the place of the Malbec in the Bordelais; others 
say that the wine made of Othello, though at first too 
-Tipen or grow well. Bunch large, long, ta) 
yiolet 
~~ prveate. ‘* The most delicious grape we have 
ed; it commences to see at the 
; ns of the former an eaken- 
ing at Gurraup’s. The very high price eae ty them 
ble. 
is not meee and caution is advisa 
asso. (Labr.) PBS seedling, supposed to 
Riptioe the pdnCeawks 6 00 originator of this 
grape, cl that it ce the following desirable 
qualiti .: hare ees eee ees quality, produc- 
tiveness, ‘and adaptation to the f the northern 
prightly tage A — yo 
Pauline. (Zist.) pcre BureunDy oF GEORGIA, 
th of the Lenoir family. 
seth wine and the table. Of 
dered ; berries 
rries below medium, compact, pale amberor 
with a lilac bloom ; brisk, 
yinous, sweet 
"Growth moderate and peculiar ; comes late into 
nderton believes it to be a hybrid and not a pure 
is. (See also Bottsi.) 
‘Pearl, A cen aman a Seedling No. _ i 
as a table and 
pale yellow covered with a delicate bloom; 
skin thin and transparent; pulp soft and melt- 
ing, juicy, sweet and high-flavored. Vine a 
very strong grower, of short-jointed, grayish 
wood, with bright green leaves; very produc- 
tive, healthy and hardy. Ripens immediately 
after Hartford. 
eabody, apeeking of Aer — by Jas. H. 
ges for about 12 years, but not offered for distri- 
bution until lately. He oda is, Si is teas 
and fruit; bun 
o large com-- 
pact ; berry the size and seaph of Iona, ade bere blue 
bl Pare, flesh tender, juicy, rich, and sprightly, The 
is unlike that of any other grape now cultivated ;. 
font in every respect.’’ 
Peter Wylie. See Dr. Wylie’s New Grapes. 
rro. (Hybr.) One of Ricketts’ Clinton seed-- 
loka crossed with foreign (Vinife ra); foliage 
bling the Clinton; productive. Bunch long, mgm 
loose ; berry m meifumn, oblong, black, very juic 
Ears with a very fin 2. 
J. H. Ricketts says: **I have fruited the Pizarro: 
many years and es tested it for whasinaiiae 
———— It makes a summer wine of great 
richness 
Planet. (Hybr.) Mentioned by Prof. Husmann 
as one of the foremost of Ricketts’ seedlings, pF aaa 
in his “* Amer. 
racials juicy, sweet, fine flayor with slight taste of he. 
Poughkeepsie-Red. This grape originated by 
ssed with mixed. 
th ty and fine quali who- 
have seen it growing at Cay woods’ place at Marlboro’, 
N. Y., testify to its vigorous 7 bo: 
Del ¥, 
one- ker red with less bloom ;. 
quality best; no pulp, melting like Iona. Claimed 
Itripens very early, 
be very ¥. valuable as a wine grape. 
with Hartford Prolific, and keeps a long time after 
being removed from the vine, tasting like raisins when 
shrivelled. As a dessert fruit, it is considered by good 
£ $2647, tact, 
overtwenty : 
yeas, Si exhibited at New York State fair it has fe 
a parentage does not give confidence of. stiecess 
except where the Delaware and Iona can be success- 
fully grown, and that is—in localities few and far — 
between. 
