218 Nexv Grape J'roin Ohio. 



instead of this being suffered, they ought to be grown on pur- 

 pose out of doors. 



Folkestone, March 10. 184-2. 



Art. IX. New Grape from Ohio. By N. Longworth, Esq., of 



Cincinnati. 



James Howarth, being about to visit England to purchase 

 plants, takes with him some roots of my Ohio grape, and re- 

 quests me to give a description of it. 



This grape I discovered a few years since, and have parted 

 with none till the past season. It is now for the first time 

 for sale in New York, at 5 dollars per plant. It is not known 

 in the eastern states, or for sale except at Thorburn's, who has 

 100 plants only. 



The grape and bunch resemble the Black Prince, but the 

 bunch is larger. It has none of the hard pulp common to the 

 American grapes, and is equal as a table fruit to the Miller's 

 Burgundy, with bunches four times the size. They grow with 

 me as large bunches as the Black Hamburg. I am trying it 

 for wine, but cannot yet speak with certainty of its qualities, but 

 fear it will not be as good for wine as for the table. It is a free 

 grower, not subject to mildew or rot, perfectly hardy, and 

 would stand the winters of Canada. For a period of thirty 

 years I have been collecting native grapes from all parts of 

 America; I have tasted near a hundred kinds; this is superior 

 to them all. With us, and indeed in all parts of the United 

 States, except our dense cities, foreign grapes do not succeed 

 and are not worth cultivation. I have forty acres in grapes, and 

 cultivate American grapes only, with one exception, and that 

 was sent me as a native. But it is clearly a Burgundy grape of 

 the Pineau family. It is a delicate grower, but stands our 

 winters tolerably, and is a fine wine grape. It is what Prince 

 sells for a native, and calls the Missouri. 



Cincinnati, U.S., Sept. 30. 1841. 



Art. X. On an American Ever-bearing Raspberry. By N. Long- 

 worth, Esq., with a Memorandum by Bishop Purcell. 



When driven into the interior of the state by the cholera, in 

 September and October of 1832, I found a raspberry in full 

 bearing, a native of our state, and the only ever-bearing rasp- 

 berry I have ever met with. I introduced it the same winter 

 into my garden, and it is now cultivated by me in preference to 



