DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Wylie’s Seedlings. 147 
Worden. 
Worden. Syn., WoRDEN’s SEEDLING. (Labr.) 
Raised by 8. —— Minetta, N. wh from 
meord seed. character atch: 
like its parent, — a few days earlier in ripen- 
patio in quali et from cord, with 
@ peculiar flavor; bunch large, shouldered ; 
berry large thin, flesh sweet, 
much‘like Concord, but generally regarded as 
abetter grape. It is doing poorly in the south, 
but desirable in Spi north-eastern or north At- 
lantic States, ere it seems less —— to 
rot than the Cennard: Tt is now in 
popularity 
Downs: 
Quinn - Céintatttes on Native Fruits, of the Am. Pom 
Society. (Proceedings 1 1871, 54.) 
ae - eh 
2 = ete : a enti- 
tle them to special attention, and, although they have 
ot been sufficiently tested, we place i 
perseverance which his experiments have | cost. As 
nok as 1859 I Es 
d foreign; all have proven failures. Other hy- 
bride which he produced by crossing wha, Isa- 
had 
dred promising seedlings; gave Rob't Guthrie, of of 
York Co., 8. C., about 65, mostly = gE og Halifax 
flourished, an ver missed a 
and Delaware. _These 
full crop ; g ar, g 
eae eRe lot, hi fy 1. Thos 
there exist now but a few of eee > ergata: Delaware 
ing to a little aot sage being ove again 
lost nearly all of em. He commenced anew with his 
ing, when sa were cut down ct a severe frost on mn the 
27th of A April, ag Cigna h killed all kinds of 
pe-vines on. adel in — 
1873, b 
sequently he had to leave his place to fepectatia 
pe t 4 Us 
Hybrids from i ea letters to us: 
Mary Wylie. (Hybr.) (Parentage, Clinton and 
pi i seal ign sn A Bderni hari! _ 
m cheek ; 
sate 2 bl sas ant as gear ong as Jane manage 
_, and foliage NATIVE; seems quite hardy, and 
of highest quali 
cross between twohybrids. Bunch 
can grapes in quality; considered of the highest ex- 
cellence by Downing, Saunders, Meehan, and 
—— No. 5. (See ‘ Berckmans,’’ page 75.) 
Garnet. (Red Frontignac and Clinton.) Bunch and 
a beautiful d 
berry larger than Clinton ; ofa nagherteny 
color; fi 
c (Bo Muscat) Ne. 8.— 
Black; bunch and berries very large and loose ; skin 
thick ; foreign; flavor.slightly musky. A 
ng grower, with large Labrusca foliage. Ripens 
as late as Catawba. 
Halifax and Hamburg No. 11. Black; bunchand 
berry odin. 280 ; skin thick ; only valuable on ac- 
coun’ i health; has 
never rotted in ten years. 
Peter Wylie No. 1. (Parentage, f. Halifax and For- 
eign, m. Delaware : and Foreign.) White ; transpa- 
gg ; bunch- 
a above medium size, betwee een Delaware 
and aa agin in quality and meaty, with a 
Muscat flavor. A vigorous, short- 
jointed, — “growing vine, with thick native 
thoroughly. (Also Peter Wylie No.2, produced from 
seed of P. W. No. 1.) 
Robert Wylie. Blue; bunch large and long ; berry 
large ; skin — rich and juicy; ripens as late as 
great bearer, _one in aac but & it 
Chinnobt ena Foreign.) Blue; bunch 
and sweet, slightly musky. Winkie lace, with 
great bearer, never fails, and 
cornea vcore see lemrged 
Staminate 
Seuppernons: sao meg im 
Hamb Scuppernong. 
; quality 
ture and flavor ; ripens early and hangslong; might 
require + 
oz - 
skin thin but tough; almost pulpless, rich, sweet, 
