138 Senasqua. BUSHBERG 
CATALOGUE. 
Taylor. 
Senasqua. A hybrid raised by 
Stephen Underhill, Croton Point, N. 
Y., from Coneord and Black Prince. 
berry varying fro 
the bunch is very compact, so much 
eause the berries to crack 
eoker black with blue bloom; quality 
best. The fruit has the peculiar fleshy 
character of certain forei 
a sieges vinous flavor. 
s one of the 
pate us, at Bushberg, it did not suc- 
ceed so well, and is nof near as desira- 
ble as Underhill’s other grapes, the 
Black Eagle and Black Defiance. Clay 
soil is not the best for Senasqua; it 
sang a sie deep soil. The origi- 
himself do 
d that it continues to resist 
the saci We give in annexed figure, 
the likeness of a medium-sized cluster. 
A fine new grape, 0 ginated with D. 8. 
SENASQUA. 
| take’; in esd comparing favorably with Lady Wash- 
in on. e have never seen it. 2 
an’s Seediing, or Tolman. Syn: CHAM- 
PION ere .) Grown in Western New York, as an 
passed for a table-grape. Not yet disseminated nor © 
Enown outside of its enue S$ place. 
Silver-Dawn. (Hybr.) seedling of Israella 
fertilized by pollen of omaleteachare a brother of 
ances in the vitieul > are 
eight inches long, well- shouldered, ra ther loose; ber- 
_ vies white, about the size of Croten, and “ not hard to 
Bunch medium to large, com- 
e variety was sent 
of ‘- Champion,” as a new variety, 
but thetwo are identical. (See Champion, page 82.) 
Taylor or Bullit, often called Taylor’ s Bullit. 
(Riparia, accidentally cros 
The often continuous tendrils, or rather irregular 
alternation of more th. 
at 
ca ear 
ake it almost cer- 
tain that the Taylor is a cross between Riparia- and 
oe rusca. 
This old variety was first introduced to 
