= ies are farther sou 
74 BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
it is quite a sg producing annual- 
ly jJarge and sure crops, r 
Phylloxera; but it can be grown nor 
arolin enness Arkansas, nor 
ev. . Onderdonk, whose nurser- 
uth than any other in the 
about the age ied 
: **We have repeatedly tried it, and as 
a, failed.”— We would not on to 
grow it, even Ae we could, as we can raise by far 
superior gra 
e are tei zn Southerners are very sen- 
sitive, a deem it unjust partiality, if not an 
insult, t awd any Spee against their favorite, 
the oninaes ong—‘‘a Divine Gift’? 
“Hants in the night time of SOrEOW nd sees 
pe heartily wishiag that joy be brought 
to afflic uth, we would therefo 
Vignes caines . C. Le ote de 
Beaulieu) We age pong ieee er, 1 
Sout a culvivators of the Sesnpacoa 
le 7. Sretlena of alee ‘IT could not say too 
a wine grape. It 
will ee usa a. tebe gh rh in the Scupper- 
It cannot be gro as N orfolk.”— 
Am. Pom. PI: ad ag 
J. rado, Arkansas: ‘The fruit is 
so sorta that it has never been known to make 
k, unless he swallowed the hulls, which are very 
eis I made some Scuppernong wine last year 
with Very little sugar (1, Ibs. to the gallon must), and 
although the grapes were not near so ripe as they 
should have been, it has a fine body. * * * It 
is called by some the ‘lazy man’s grape.’ I admit the 
and prize it the more on that account.’’ 
Jno. R. Eakin, Wash m, Arkansas; ‘‘I scarcely 
know what to say of this nondescript, which is called 
uu inned i 
still a most useful fruit sué generis, and I hope will be 
ao extensively by those who have no inclina- 
Edited ‘bunch grapes,’ as iti is the habit of its friends 
to call the Herbemont, the Catawba and others. Each 
7? 
A. C Cook, of Georgia: “It is deficient both in «ugar 
and acid, as it rates at about 10 per cent of the 
4 per mille of the latter.’’— Grape Culturist, July, 1870. 
SCUPPERNONG. 
The s discovered by the colony 
of Sir Walter Raleigh, : in inks on the [sland of Roa- 
noke, N. C., and the original vine is said to yy exist 
there, being over 300 In arance, 
wood, fruit and hab’t, it is aia distinct, » Or — 
as Mr. Van Buren calls it, saying: ‘‘ T ar 
blance between the me Vinifera, ‘baleen, “Rativalis, 
+h 
m can ever be crossed with th v. Ro- 
he odor of the Scupper- 
@ delidivns, and entir i 
x 
red, firm 
before creatine " 
of only about 4 
to 6, rarely more, large, thic berries, 
pening in August and September; not all 
at the same time, but are falling off successively when 
— " ok esti the vine, an y are thus gathered 
fro’ Color hat b 
he 
Congres held in 1874 at rears noid peat? — ie 
rnong wines there — a agréable : 
even “d’un gout 
