DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 55 
THE HERBEMONT GRAPE. 
tolerably firm liber. Its good resisting power 
against Phylloxera is due, probably, more to its 
exceedingly strong root growth, than to the tex- 
ture of the root itself. Canes stout, with strong 
crooks at the joints, laterals well developed, and 
considerable down on the young growth. Wood 
hard, with a small pith. Tolerably fair wine 
has been made from it, but we could not recom- 
mend it for that purpose. Only as a market 
grapé it is considered valuable by many, on ac- 
count of its earliness and great productiveness ; 
but even as such it is inferior to several others. 
(Framingham and Seneca are almost identical 
with the Hartford.) 
Herbemont. Syn: Warren, HERBEMONT’S 
MADEIRA RENTON, Neri Grape. @ (_st.) 
Origin unknown; ; it was propagated as early,as 
