56 BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
1798, from an old vine growing on the planta- 
_ tion of Judge Huger, Columbia, 8. C. Mr. 
Nicholas Herbemont, an eaterpvision and en- 
thusiastic cultivator of the grape, found it 
there, and from its vigorous growth and per- 
fect acclimation at first correctly supposed it 
was a native; he was afterwards informed, in 
1834, that it had been received from France, and 
he believed it. But the same grape was also 
found growing wild in Warren County, Ga., 
and is there known as the Warren grape. The 
best authorities now class it as a member of the 
@stivalis family of the south—a native grape, 
truly called by Downing, ‘“B: Wine.” 
One of the very best and most reliable grapes 
for both table and wine, especially adapted for 
our hillsides on limestone soil. It should not be 
to this slight trouble it has nearly always pro- 
duced a splendid crop, and has been so enor- 
mously productive that it richly repaid the little 
additional labor. To some of our Southern 
States this grape will be a mine of wealth. 
Bunches very large, long, shouldered and com- 
pact; derrtes small, black, with a beautiful blue 
iad skin thin, flesh sweet, without pulp, 
juicy and high-flavored; 
days after Catawba. Roots 
ness, With a smooth, hard liber, resisting to the 
Phylloxera in France as well as here. Canes 
stout, heavy and long; laterals well-developed. 
Wood hard, with a ized pith, and thick 
firm outer bark. Vine a very vi us grower, 
with the most beautiful foliage; not subject to 
mildew, and but very little to rot; in rich soil 
it is somewhat tender, makes too much wood, 
and seems less productive, while in warm and 
rather poor limestone soil, with southern expo- 
sure, it is perfectly healthy, and enormously 
productive, except in very unfavorable seasons, 
when all half-tender varieties will fail. Mr. 
Werth, of Richmond, Va., says: I have found 
the most uniformly abundant, healthy, and 
thoroughly ripened crop, for successive seasons, 
on low, imperfectly drained, and rather com- 
-pact soil. The accompanying illustration gives 
an idea of the beanty and richness of the bunch. 
Specific gravity of must about 90°. The pure 
juice pressed, without mashing the grapes, 
makes a white hai resemblihg delicate Rhen- 
ish wines; if fermented on the husks about 
forty-eight hours, i will make a very fine pale 
red e French wine judges at Mont- 
pelier, se RE SE it ‘‘ assez agréable, rappel- 
lant le gout des vins de l’est de la France,” 
- bon and corsé.” 
It seems that but very few seedlings of the 
Herbemont have been raised; at least we know 
of none that were Hiceaminnted: One Herbe- 
mont seedling is mentioned by Dr. Warder, in 
his description of the ‘‘ Longworth School of 
Vines.” The Pauline (see description) may, 
perhaps, be a seedling of Herbemont; 
cogee also; but little is known of these varieties. 
If wE intended to raise new seedlings (which 
we do not) we would select the Herbemont in 
preference to almost any other variety. 
Hattie, or Hettie. There are three grapes under 
this name, or under conflicting descriptions. One 
a Sa with Mrs. N. R. Haskel, Monroe, Mich; de- 
Tibed as a bright, clear red, translucent grape. The 
sean; introduced by E. Y. Teas, of Richmond, Ind., 
as a large, oval, black, grape, “earlier, jarger aad 
better than Concord and Isabella.”” And another ee un- 
known origin. Bunch small; berry black; flesh so 
What’ pulpy; a poor grower and hearer, but one 
early. All three are unknown here. 
Herbert. (Rogers’ No. 44.) Labrusca, im- 
pregnated by Black Hamburg. Bunch large, 
rather long and loose; berry large size, round, 
sometimes a little flattened; black; flesh very 
sweet and tender. Early and productive. 
Herma wine grape is a seed- 
ling of Norton’s Virginia, raised by Mr. F. Lan- 
gendoerfer, near Hermann, Mo. The original 
vine had fruited in 1863 with its originator, and 
grafts of it fruited abundantly in 1864. It has 
now been tested for nearly ten years, in various 
places, and proved itself without a fault as to 
growth, foliage and fruit. On trying the must 
on Oechsle’s scale it showed 96°, and has since 
varied from 94° to 105°. Bunch long and nar- 
row, seldom shouldered, compact, often nine 
inches long; the shoulders, if there are any, 
having the appearance of a separate bunch; 
berry small, about same size as Norton’s, round, 
| black with blue bloom, moderately juicy, never 
rots or mildews, and ripens very late, a few days 
later than the Norton’s. The juice is of a 
brownish yellow, making a wine of the color of 
brown Sherry or Madeira, of great body and of 
very fine flavor, resembling Madeira. Our 
friend Sam. Miller says: There is a peculiar fra- 
grance about the wine of * Hermann that no 
other American sesses, and were 
teetotaler in drinking, - should like to have 
_ at the Congrés de Montpellier, pronounce the 
Hermann “bien droit de gout, particuliérement 
Vine a strong grower, and 
very productive, resembling the Norton’s in 
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