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EUMELAN. 
Eumelan. (‘Good black” grape.) (£st.)* 
This variety was found as a chance seedling at 
Fishkill, N. Y., where it has been in cultivation 
(in the garden of Messrs. Thorne) for many 
years, yielding abundant crops of grapes, re- 
ei both for goodness and earliness. The 
original vines were purchased by Dr. C: W. 
Grant, in 1866, (now Hasbrouck & Bushnell, 
Iona Island,) from whom we obtained the 
plants tt this valuable variety, probably the 
y grape we have got. We give the 
denier from the circular of its propagator, 
5 Grant, leaving out, however, all excessive 
ise, which, in our opinion, has damaged his 
shcooks more than all his opponents. Bunches 
of good size, elegant form, and proper degree 
_— 
a& mere yf gS 9 ical error in our first edition 
cess the was designated as Labr., and to our 
regret thi ror was ever since copied and repeated by 
many ; but while this 
is evidently more than an 
versight in those who undertake to arrange and de- 
penis our native vin es by species and still place Eumelan 
an 
of compactness; berries large medium 
firmly to the bunch long after 
ripening; flesh tender, melting, all going 
to wine-like juice under slight pressure 
of the tongue; ripening very early (even 
before the Hartford Prolific) and evenly 
to the center. Flavor pure ane refined, 
very sugary, rich and vinous, with a 
large degree of that 8 as quality 
that belongs distinctively to the best 
foreign wine grapes. Roots abundant, 
thick, spreading, and of medium tough- 
ness; liber thick but firm. Vine a strong 
rower, producing remarkably short- 
jointed wood, with numerous and strong 
laterals; buds large and prominent; 
wood hard with a small pith; 
large, thick, dark colored, firm in tex- 
ture (it strikingly resembles Elsinburg) 
and though subject to mildew in some 
Dairies and unfavorable seasons, we 
tested in several localities. It has proved 
with us, near New York, remarkably 
healthy in foliage, and has taken sev- 
s 
In 
has Mu | ‘all that was claimed for ‘it, being 
Psa hardy, early, productive, and of very 
fine quality. 
Perhaps with no other variety is it so import- 
ant to set out enly good and strong plants in 
the first place, as with this one; and we think 
that the great diversity of opinion now exist- 
which have never come to any good thereafter, 
and never will. 
The Eumelan makes a superior red wine (ac- 
cording to Mottier, North-East, Pennsylvania, 
must 93°, and at the test held at Hammonds- 
port as high as 104° with only 4 per mill. acid), 
and should it prove more generally successful. 
it will rank high among wine grapes. 
a figure of a bunch and leaf, re- 
We give 
duced in size, and a single berry of full natural 
size. 
