BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
CANADA. 
Canada. (Arnold’s Hybrid No. 16.) Raised 
from seed of Clinton, crossed with pollen of 
Black St. Peters. Resembles the Brant (No. 3) 
rry and 
It is justly praised for 
its rich aromatic flavor and delightful bou- 
quet by all who taste it. Bunch and berry 
above medium; color black, with a fine bloom; 
skin thin, free from all harshness and the acid- 
ity common to other native grapes. A moderate 
grower, with peculiar foliage; hardy, and ma- 
tures its wood well. Will prove valuable for 
wine. 
Canby’s August. See York Madéria. 
Catawba. Syn. Rep Muncy, CaTawBa 
Toxay, SrncLetron. (Labr.) This old and well- 
known variety is a native of North Carolina, 
and has its name from the Catawba river where 
Fancher, claimed 
it was found, and introduced to notice fifty 
years ago, by Major John Adlum, of George- 
town, D.C. It has been for many years the 
standard wine grape of the country, and thou- 
sands of acres have been planted with it; but 
owing to its uncertainty, on account of the rot, 
mildew and blight, and its too late ripening in 
the Eastern and Northern States, (in Oct.) it is 
now in many sections being discarded and other 
more reliable kinds are planted instead. In lo- 
calities where it will fully mature, and where it 
seems less subject to disease, there are very few 
better varieties. 
We are now convinced that the Phylloxera is 
the main cause of its diseases. Wherever ex- 
amined the rootlets of the Catawba were found 
either covered with lice, producing those now 
well-known nodosities, or already dead. Its 
roots are evidently not capable of resisting 
Phylloxera, and yet, unlike European varieties, 
they make new roots, and in favorable seasons 
resume their former vigor for one summer, un- 
til they are sapped again at the foundation. 
In Missouri it did better in 1868 and 1874 than 
since 1857, owing probably to the character of 
the seasons, and comparative immunity from 
Phylloxera. Bunch large, moderately compact, 
shouldered ; berries above medium, round, deep 
red, covered with lilac bloom. Skin moderately 
thick ; flesh slightly palpy, sweet, juicy, with a 
rich, vinous and somewhat musky flavor. Vine 
a Vigorous grower; in favorable seasons and lo- 
calities very productive. Clay shale soil, also 
gravelly or sandy soils seem best adapted. 
g I the naturally strong 
growth of the vine, when in a perfectly healthy 
state, with a texture below average hardness; 
thick liber, and not inclined to push young fi- 
bers as rapidly as other varieties ; canes straight 
and long, with few laterals; wood of average 
hardness, with a pith a little more than the ay- 
erage size. Must ranged from 86° to 91° by 
(chsle’s scale; by Twitchell’s scale, 2.02 lbs. 
sugar per gallon of must; acid 12 to 13; at Ham- | 
mdport, at an examination conducted under 
the auspices of several prominent pomologists, 
Oct. 12, 1870, only 7.29 per mill. 
The Catawba has quite a number of SEED- 
tines; of Jona and Diana, its two best, and of 
Anna, Hine, Mottled, &c., we give de- 
scriptions in their alphabetic order; but some 
are actually the same as Catawba, and only 
pretended seedlings, to sell under a new name; 
others are so nearly identical as not to require 
description. To this class belong: 
to be an early Catawba, 
