DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 39 
Brant. (Arnold’s Hybrid No. 8.) 
Seedling of Clinton crossed with Black 
The young leaves and shoots 
dark blood red; leaves very deeply lobed, 
smooth on both sides. Bunch and berry 
resembling the Clinton in appearance, but 
greatly superior in flavor when perfectly 
ripe; skin thin, free from pulp, sm juice, 
sweet and vinous; seeds sma all and few 
worthy of the attention of grape growers. 
ges br.) Anexcellent new grape, 
. Hooker, of Rochester, N. Y. 
Bunch. jarge: tae beautifully formed, aig 
ind 
ofa Catawba ep quality and flav vor’ - 
perior. Should the vine prove hardy, healthy 
and productive, it Peal be a valuable addition to 
our list of grapes. We have been favored with 
it by the originator for testing here, but are not 
allowed to disseminate the same for the present. 
Bucroughs?’. (Cord.) From eer ys Vine 
allied to the Clinton. Bunch small; berry round, 
black, thick bloom; flesh harsh, acid, austere.— 
Downing. 
Burton’s Earl (Labr.) A mag sale 
poor Fox grape. en eany culture.— 
Bottsi. (@st.) The local name for a Veej 
remarkable grape, grown 
tleman of that name, in Natchez, Miss. It is 
said ti 
(including a Paks eomplonely om the 
back grou nd 
mont Fiat some fifty y years ago from 8. C, 
differs from our Herbemont in color, being of a light 
k in shade, a dark pink in the fullsun. It may, 
perhaps, be t e hich mention is made 
er 6s li ta 
mony of Mr. ol - Childs an amateur 
and rapid g Sseth. ormous 
nade us yg ad 2 
as tr it: 
fruitfulness and Ps viig from rot, 
with nsid 
that long neglected but most important class of Ameri- 
vines, and shall disseminate it among southern 
(Labr.) A new grape, origi- 
nated in the garden of Mr. Francis Houghton, 
Cambridge, Mass, and now introduced by Mess. 
Hovey & Co., of Boston, as “of the highest 
merit.” They describe it as follows: ‘It isa 
black grape, somewhat resembling Concord, 
but with more oval berries. Bunches large an 
BRANT. 
shouldered ; berries large, with avery thin skin, 
m 
scribe teas Messrs. Hovey & Co.), we can quite 
as fully endorse as we did the Concord, just 
twenty years ago, (1854) and we do not doubt 
will attain an equal, if not a higher rank than 
that variety.” 
Camden. (Zabr.) Bunch medium; berry large, 
greenish white; flesh with a hard centre; acid; poor. 
