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APRIL 26, 1856.] THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 2S1 
shaped, a light reddish brown sigan ni in flavour north, to tl th ti the the centre, “ea meeting. Each Vine may be | repre- 
delicious ; the ey os fe déstitute of pulp, and so tender i o the foot of ¢ nf Rise sente d thus, +, the laterals interlacing over head and 
Like all the rest t of Lond tative | Mountains ; : w= so various are vas alities of w The branches are never pruned, as 
Grape 5 of a nl value, th gn| fy d, that some kinds Sain 3 or 4 dollars pir | it is said ó Vin ine would bleed on — ” Like the 
origin.” our y bbed | gallon, and s e ki nds can be b rehas pe for 5 or 6 | Vines in 4 car hit these are hig d, (haut tige,) 
of oq bth ee. ree gordon a fine | doll There a f this Grape | the lowest branches being 8 eetabore vad parallel w with, 
Grape e gardens of Mr. Johnson, near Frederick- —the t ha ad whit ry sins: Saik a rich | the ground. The yield is abundant, soas Vine 
town, Mary and, and another in the ee of Mrs, | me alte ro stre, while the “inferior kind, ben erie as | often Do nore ee of geedeninn the 
Scholl, of Clarksburg. He says, “A Germ cp pre, black wrongs Mr. Lo ongwor rth s: Instances jio een cited 
who saw Mrs. Scholl's Vine in full bearing a ri h, and | of single s Vines yielding enough Grapes to make several 
ripe, cy rapier B gel true Tokay, and says Ser saw the would, i of war, if lead be searce, be as v: REN barrels 
same kind grow Tokay, in Hungary!” The/even sities fully ri ipe, a she Fox pee ae bee? bullets. The _We bee seen _ Specimens ‘of native Vine 9 of Virginia 
Schuylkill Museadel was as christened 7d The Ca aps rape,” | white Scuppernong, ie so, has a ver all bune h; y. The Catawba there is an abundant 
as Mr. Longworth says, g p n ;” and to | is a better Ligne than the black. i wine made from it wdc different 
this day, many believe it to be a mative of Africa, | and the pu Ip ba ard ; it t will never be valuable as 8 wine ant that te Oio. The climate Re this State w 
although its wild panee are found in plenty all G l adapted for the purpose, and the 
l Pennsylvania. The Isa sr formerly called the Las- If for no other purpose than Daa ea to mix | wild and waste land pms =a turned to Aia wear 
peyre Grape, is a native of North Carolina. | with the must of less flavoured Grapes, to g ha . To Virg 
To return, however, to ih e aba ps California, to the ine hen mad his Seupy t Jebted 
e are vineyards in the immediate vicinity } The “ Traminer” of | we may instance sAn parakar me- a 2 the * Woodson, 
of San Francisco, but Vines are cultivated in the val- | the Atira a smali-berried + Gripe; pyre z in sac- | and “Cunningham.” Here, too, the Bland Gra grows 
leys, especially to the southward of the State ; and a | charum, and full of aroma and strength, o used to abundantly, under the name of. the pe Muscadel. 
strong red wine, resembling claret, is drank b i mix w with the * Riesling,” | the favourite Grape of the In Maryland and De lawa are, also, a ety o! of native 
country ghana from their own Grapes. At Los Angelos | Rhi } 
the ey 1 mak ea very excellent white wine, A in like And that the generality of European wines owe their ness. One Vine ae by Mr, Willis ner Baltimore), 
mixture ro rious ore ls in aay yielded 000 ee and in the following 
iach « Mustang” and the El Paso are the peculiar | and vintages is so well roca as sca ioeiy to n re- t r, Messrs. C. M. Bromwell a: — — certify 
Gra; of Tex aS. The weak which iis scar’ cely ac- ge J here. “tha ghee pinnar epon it 54, bunches, omitting 
s known the value ¢ of he Seupp which cond je added at least 
a ent Vines indigenous to ‘the oil which pro oduces i b ly tried ; at least not in North ‘Caro- 3000 
i The El Paso has, however, been ‘succesfully cultivated, mak Of all the san amples } ot one was the That l oon of the United States between the 38th and 
i The following, from De Bow’s “ Indu d l Gripe; but in |4 l itled t 
the South and West,” give some account of the|every case more or less mn rhe with sugar or | macy “in Grape KEE "Already the wines of Ohio and 
i region which is on ‘to Hs the best wine in the| honey Y, anà not go hp gee with whisky or brandy. It ere Aw begin to supplant the imported Rhine and _ 
! orld :— s usual t add 3 lbs. of sugar to 1 gallon of the must, | Champagne wines here, even at the same prices, Ter- 
l "ile settlement of El Paso extends from the distilled spirit of some kind is poured | races rise above terraces on the hillsides of the Ohio 
| the Faad Grande on the north to a cogil on ad into every ipva of wine * to make it keep.” rine: Nae River, and the red bluffs begin to disappear beneath 
! south, a distance of 22 miles and t, the fluid Seyen erates into a sort of | masses of Vine foliage and purple clusters of fruit. In 
| e. and garden, embracing 8 grog, a and its eiin character as a wine is Pennsylvania, at the end of the last century, an asso 
trious and pe eaceable population of at least 8000. This almost entirely lost. Still, spit te of this, it has an | ciation was formed for the rae) pe pest the 
p: midway between Santa Fé Grape for wine, and vineyards tablished al 
Chihu uahua, and is vee from the other Mexican That species of the Muscadine she a the an Spring Mill, under the ct aaa “a ré Peter 
settlements b; ry sweet Grape, but sweet Grape es Legoux. Ahi was a fa ee foreign Vires were tried 
went 4 and close into the ri river on the north and south. often Serg in saccharine matter. For a dab wild Come called ed Sehuy)- 
d Isa bella Grapes. To the | kill Muscadel met wi tem np success, 
| importa t production of this district is Grapes, fi by fi In New Jersey me ¥ as been cultivated for many 
| which are a oi 200,000 | i tbe ‘Teabella needs a liberal | years, especially in the petra en oer of Burlington. 
| gin of perhaps the best and richest wine in ‘the acter of sugar, wise the Catawba win uires | The soil of some parts of this State is peculiarly penie 
orld. Thi dollars per ga allo on, and little or none. M‘ Cullo ch, in his treatise on wine-making, | for this purpose, and we may hope hereafter for better 
constitutes he principal source of t istinction between the “sweet | wines than those she now furnishes under a vari 
try. Great quantities of Grapes are also dried in principle” and that which constitutes the “sugar” in for reign brands, Still further west, we find that In- 
oii at oe ail yr or use during the winter. Inf e latter, , Illinois, and Michigan are improving the hint 
this state they sare sidered superior to the best | which by h fi 1 n by Ohio ; in fact, A must ised as 
asins that are en or Europe. rat lo spinit t of wine, a certain per centage the pi or, in the beginning of this cen- 
he great Mustan ng Grave o of Texas is also said to be essar: all vinous fluids, This spirit of hy wine tury, the most considerable zquantity of native y wine 
a iad Grape of superior qua uality, grows a.) the | is a derived diretl from the sugar of the mal x aa made in the Unit 
atest profusion, wi rot cultivation, in every of | the difference between the sweet element a kill Grape of Ve vay, Switzerland county, In 
Texas, upon all varieties of soil. The ol ag jad charine elitné is very clearly erer wn i McCallogk, Miso already ventures to haere hos pala with 
duced from it is said to resemble port. Not alone in | who illustrates the subject by comparing molasses with | Ohio. In 1852 Sn vineyards at Hermann embraced 
California aud Texas, but throughout the entire South, | refine sone, < = first being cack “the: sweetest of the | some s49 or 50 ac s only, and this year we are idol 
= native Grapes flourish in wonderful luxuriance. The | two to the t I that no Jess than ace 
ea islands that fringe the coasts from a to the rn Art sored of i td “saccharum. _ And if we may Ven-,| Marly other ratie in the interi 
Florida en are embroilered with wild Vin s, la den n a t! we should say ¢ State. aa s chet stal Palace Fanon i in New egiye d 
with cluste those not Ko x pri es Wi awarded t Bebe f Missouri 
bite the diated: Florida abounds in this delici dulcet to the tast , lies i in this : that i in the sweet Aesha a for ples of s s uper rior nativ wines, s both Isabella a 
fruit ; in Alabama, Grape | culture is already iting | the wh still A sparing. „The last Grape i 
much attention, ly | ducti ony alcohol, while in those in | fi n 
wines of meae excellent iy but also a very g great sugar a portion only i is transmut ted 3 into alcohols “the | In St. a the native wines are rapidly esate 
variety of w Their fe is very easy, a and the | superflux of sugar remaining in Sapien solution, the fore ie merce id Barry Br arin ere at orto 
Vines are al unane berere A gentleman, in a lette: rand | swee eetening the wine, less or more, as may be.” hote!s there, the majori 
to the « Alabam: says: “ A vineyard at ma-| Now g "produces a ir natu- | home production. 
turity, say th the fourth y cit would be good for from 500 pt hard and ary, ith li t but its The t Se wine ppe of Ohio are the 
to 750 gallons ; peyeho, OE i 1000 Baagi : „andi q Catawb a the first, however, in the 
Seuppernong m oye more, to the h ificiall à Proportion g 40 "Me l. Both are natives of North Caro- 
properties erage ta our ‘naive “Grape, ity So long as this method of treatment | lina. The first was found and noticed merely as a wild 
of vinous ma y possess is mosi arkable. „Ajis pradet $ liker it nor taf other American wine so | Grape, in the year 1802, by Colonel Murray and others, 
bushel of bunches, PH pulled from the Vine, wit 2 any w of mohair beat with | in Buncombe county, North Carolina. There it reposed 
3 gallon s of w wine , and after ' undergoi ng a pera p p te, Lis rseilles for r upwa ards of 20 years without attracting EEEN 
greeable | The difficulty lies in this : our Vine growers are dt 
wine, It w a third ress, to prod I taste so far ee its merits ga discovered by Major Jobn atten, 8 vot 
meagre | drink eth pints n part, th he p cially in the s Tural nd h rth Carolina, 
try T i p i rd nal, an officer of the Revelation, formerly 
The woods of Laisa, vi ippi, pi Ark: h lag j y as a great culti- 
abound in varieties of wild Vines that yiel untry town. ” Pure who nied wines never f the Grape, ag devoted the "ast years of his 
fruitage, ren as Raccoon, Bear, Bull, Chicken, and |a | are, and never should ae sweer; i a ss of sy life to tl the course of his experiments 
As yet, we hare no specimens of | refreshment for a labour daily beverage fi ith nati e Vines he found tbis one in the garden of a 
wines of these delehrkted brands. One of these wild | anybody, actually repulsive z ; ] for- | G 
in een successfully cultivated already, under | ward to the e peri riod w hen our wine shall be used as the | vin inced of it i Grape, that he sent some 
the name of “ Bland’s Madeira,” and doubtless th p f the sli ith a letter, TA 
are ae Hepa which “he the skill of the Vin ATE now and here that by wa we mean th e pure, oF have ¢ ice ae ‘ovat a pools service by ‘ateodustny 
e Grape, without the admixture I ld h 
fact, had p ional debt.” Adlum Fost the debt ro 
Grapes, that are Wied lords ‘py Nature’s uner-| ‘That the Sanok i is a hard, à i For 
É ring training. Itis well to observe thata Gra EE without sugar, is doub:less true; vat Ses e question is, | nearly 30 years, » ith pati th ap 
produce a superior wine in one district, and yet be of |“ What character will this very wi M ime until the hour ber ra 
little value in another ; so that one species mellowed of age +8 The Serial, the king of of Madeira, arrived when hid ge oo of Major Adlum seems cer- 
i may disappoint dod cultivator in Arkansas, that is f fulfil Thirty years of patient labour ; 30 
| reason why it should be rejected by his brother i P fi 'ltering faith ; 30 years of man’s life; what 
; t _ Tennessee or Louisiana, or vice vers sc eta until age a corrected the Veerti a span it is! stretchi from hopeful youth to hoary 
i In Georgia, the luscious Museadines gathered in the of i its temper! ? but what then? Then it becomes on age; a long while, my good friend, to look forward to— 
| wild state produce a wine of considerable merit ; as | the most uisite fluids in the world, and Ai e K a | a long way to look back. In the 30 years to come we 
i yet no attempt has been made to give them a formal | price mycin jÉ in some instances, to any known wine, | may have occasion to thank these ahaa dPeeioed of may 
| training, except here and there upon a small scale, | with the exception of Imperial Tokay. Its th: 
sal This is the case in South Carolina. of the native wine of North Carolina, ea still need| The Isabella G first introduced to notice by 
| „North Carolina is the natal soil of the Catawba, the | | developmen nt ; age and proper trea! must in time Mr. George Gibbs, “of B Brooklyn, Long Islan ifs th, 
; t two of th p i Mrs. Gil 
zal unquestionably owe their ‘reputati tion to the skill of the | of delicat an important q uality, indeed. The | his wife, and the Vine, in compliment to her, was nam 
cultivators of Ohio aut 3 oe = at and have only li Tiea (layers, not cut- | the “Isabella.” Se it was called th 
ve State ; but Scuppernong ies are planted 100 | feet Epia the main branches a aed Mr. Be rnard Laspeyre, who resided! tiie 
ie vineyards are found Pi "Caerinek, on g ilmington, North Carolina, having the parent Vine 
