DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 69 
» has, nevertheless, become the great and 
eats variety for re 
Missouri, where its superior qualities were 
first appreciated and brought out in full splen- 
dor, and in its native State, but far and near, 
wherever grape vines are planted; and it is 
now so popular that it will be difficult to 
make our grape growers believe a variety still 
superior to the Norton can be found. And 
we claim this for the “Cynthiana.” 
The bunch of the Norton is long, compact and 
shouldered; berry small, black, with dark blu- 
ish red juice, almost without pulp when fully 
ripe; sweet and brisk. Ripens late in October. 
Vine vigorous, healthy, hardy and productive 
when well established, but very impatient of 
tr aan. and exceedingly difficult to prop- 
aga Roots tough and wiry. Liber thin and 
hath, "or great resistance to the Phylloxera. 
Canes vigorous, of m m thickness and geod 
length. Wood very eo with a small pith and 
firm outer bark. Wherever the season will 
admit of a thorough and perfect ripening of its 
fruit, the Norton will succeed in almost any 
soil. In rich bottoms it comes early into bear- 
ing, and is enormously productive—on high 
hills with rather poor soil and southern aspects 
it is tardy in coming into bearing, but produces 
there the richest wine, of great body and supe- 
rior medical qualities.* It has quite a peculiar 
coffeine flavor which at first seems unpleasant to 
many, but which, like eae endears itself to 
From wi ost promising 
white grapes oe lately Basil ae almost 
simultaneously: One by old Langendorfer, at 
Hermann, Missouri: the other by J. Balsiger of 
Highland, Illinois. These and the white Her- 
mann seedling (see Herm.) are the first white 
pure Aistivalis we know of, and these may be- 
come as valuable for white wines as Norton’s 
and Cynthiana are for red wines. They are 
very late, ripening even later than Norton’s, 
and thus will not be adapted for locations north 
of St. Louis, but the more valuable for the South. 
They have not yet been named, and will not be 
diastase’ until fully tested; and unless they 
prove excellent in quality, perfectly healihy and 
hardy and very prolific, they will not be brought 
out by us. 
Oporto. (Cord-) Of the same species as the Tay- 
lor’s Bullit; a true nati 
small, ry 3 berries small, 
black, harsh ssa very acid; eeek a very poor 
*It is the 
remedy here for dysentery and dis- 
dition ot Gs iy y ry 
wels. 
smooth foliage, but not v 
Mera Mr. bean “Of no value, a complete 
hum —Hi 
napus asa wbiitns wine grape by Gov. 2. W. 
Fur- 
nas of Nebraska, who says (Report to Am. Pomological 
Society, 1871) ““My vines (of Oporto) have never failed 
red . 
to give a fine crop; last year 
‘ood rors fron one ee five years old. It is an ex- 
mince bearing the frat on until after first frosts 
in fall. I have found the O a first class 
yield of very good wine, gre itiy improved by age.’’ 
Governor, that is too good to be believed! 
aga. A seedling Seater pode in Fayetteville, 
naam county, N. Y.; oss between the Diana 
and the Delaware; said 'e sab anit in some degree the 
flavor of gas ripening at the same time as Delaware, 
nd to be a late keeper. Its earance is a 
very fine, resembling Diana. Should it pro 
and healthy as its originator claims, it would pee be 
a valuable acquisition, as a market grape. Not dissem- 
ed. 
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Othello, (Arnold’s Hybrid No.1.) kaon 
from what is called Clinton in Canada (but not 
the true Clinton) fertilized by the pollen of 
Black Hamburg. Described in the Am. Hort. 
Annual for 1868, as follows: ‘‘ Bunch and berry 
very large, much resembling the Black Ham- 
burg-in appearance. Black with a fine bloom. 
Skin thin, the flesh very solid, but not pulpy; 
flavor pure and sprightly, but in the specimens 
we have seen rather acid. Ripening with the 
Delaware.” 
Our experience with it has i 20h as favora- 
ble as we expected. The vin roved good 
growers, with beautifal, lage, gale lobed, 
uctive. The 
bunches by no means eisai be Black Ham- 
burg in appearance; nor are they as good in 
quality as Mr. Arnold’s other Hybrids. 
o Syn. SEGAR-Box, oo eo OHIO, 
BLACK-SPANISH ALABAMA; is derstood to be 
identical with the ‘‘Jaques’ , or seFick? i mp i and 
cultivated near Natchez, Mississippi, by an old Span- 
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fifteen inches long, cathe loose, tapering, shouldered), 
and its good quality; its berries are small, round, skin 
thin, purple aes : blue i ye tender, melting, 
without pulp, brisk and vinou! he wood is stro 
ong jointed, ec red than ae a the Norton’s Vir- 
es large, 
bearer, but soon mildew and rot affected it so badly 
that it was of no use, even when 
th protection. Downing (Fruit and F. trees of Am.) 
said ‘‘it is most likely a orb sort, and, except in a 
few locations, a sandy soit and a mild climate, it is not 
