72 BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
leaves, hanging on till late in November; very 
healthy and hardy, but requires covering in 
winter. It has very tough, strong roots with a 
firm, smooth liber, not subject to injury by 
Phylloxera; wood very hard, with a small pith 
and firm outer bark. And although it will not 
bear big crops, it makes up in quality as a wine. 
grape, what it may lack in quantity. It makes 
an excellent pale red, or rather brownish wine, 
closely resembling sherry, which was repeatedly 
awarded a first premium, as the best light col- 
ored wine. Must 100°—1I0° 
Bogers’ Hybrids. Those of Mr- 
Rogers’ valuable seedlings to whom he 
has given names in place of numbers, by 
which they have hitherto been desig- 
nated, have been placed, in alphabetical 
order, in their appropriate places ;* but 
there are some remaining numbers yet 
unnamed, which deserve aname. (See 
also Aminia, probably No. 39.) 
No. 2. One of the largest of all his 
Hybrids. Bunch and berry very large, 
dark purple, nearly black; Jate in ripen- 
ing, and in flavor somewhat like the Ca- 
tawba. Vine a vigorous grower and 
vl productive. 
o. 5. Not yet card here. Mr. 
.. W. Campbell say 
** One of the finest of "Rogeve' sty pads 
and deserving to be better known. 
pact; berries large, round, red, sweet 
and rich; free from foxiness and in qual- 
ity one of the very best. Vine perfectly 
hardy and healthy, but not as strong a 
grower as some others.” 
No. 8. Considered by Mr. Husmann 
as one of the dest, and valuable for. wine 
making purposes, he describes it as fol- 
lows: ‘* Bunch and berry large; color 
pale red, but the fully matured berries a 
deep coppery red, with fine light gray 
bloom; flesh sweet, juicy, with pleasant 
flavor, and almost entirely free from 
pulp. Skin about the same thickness as 
ta 
Hardy and productive.” We 
do not think so much of these Hybrids, and we 
fear that their Roors are not sufficiently resist- 
ive to Phylloxera. 
*No. 1. Goethe No. 14. Gaertner. 0. 41. Essex, 
No. 8. Massasoit. . No.15. Agawam. ‘No. 43. Barry. 
No, 4. Wilder. No. 19. Merrimac. No. 44. Herbert. 
No. 9. Lindley. No. 23. Requa. No. 53. Salem. 
Salem (Rogers’ No. 53.) Like Agawam 
(No. 15) and Wilder (No. 4), this is a Hybrid 
between a native (Wild Mammoth), the female, 
and the Black Hamburg, the male parent. 
Bunch large and compact, broad, shouldered; 
berry large as Hamburg, three-fourths of an 
inch in diameter, of a light chestnut or catawba 
color; flesh tolerably tender, sweet, with rich, 
aromatic flavor; a little foxiness to the smell 
which is not perceptible to the taste; considered 
in quality one of the best; skin rather thick; 
seeds large; ripens as early as Concord; it also 
ROGERS’ HYBRID NO. 8. 
keeps well. 
age large, strong and abun 
lighter color than most of the Rogers grapes. 
The roots are of medium thickness, branching, 
with smooth, firm liber, and have more of the 
native character than most other Hybrids 3Ethey 
Vine very vigorous, healthy; foli- 
of a 
