DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 75 
Senasqua. A _ hybrid raised by 
Stephen Underhill, Croton Point, N. 
Y., from Concord and Black Prince. 
Seed was planted in 1863 and the vine 
bore its first fruit in 1865. Bunch and 
berry varying from medium to large; 
the bunch is very compact,so much so, 
as to cause the berries to crack; color 4 
black with blue bloom; quality best. f 
The fruit has the peculiar fleshy char- 
acter of certain foreign grapes, with a 
brisk, vinous flavor. vine is vig- 
orous and productive, in rich soil; 
moderately hardy. The leaf is very 
firm, and shows no trace of foreign er- 
igin, except when it ripens, at which 
time, instead of the yellow of the Con- 
cord it takes on the crimson color of 
the mature leaf of the Black Prince. 
With us, at Bushberg, it did not suc- 
ceed so well, and is not near as desira- 
ble as Underhill’s new grapes, the 
Black Eagle and Black Defiance. The 
originator himself does not recommend 
the Senasqua as a profitable grape for 
market purposes, as it is rather late in 
ripening (afew days after Concord), 
but only as a fine and valuable ama- 
teur fruit. As such it is of first rank, 
“of the highest quality to those who 
appreciate life and brilliancy in a 
grape.”—We give in annexed figure, 
the likeness of a medium-sized cluster. 
Taylor or Bullit. (often called Taylor’s 
Bullit,) (Cord.) Introduced to notice by Judge 
Taylor, of Jericho, Henry County, Kentucky. 
It is generally considered very unproductive. 
It seems that the vines of this variety require 
age, and spur pruning on old wood to make it 
produce well. Mr. Husmann says 
“Dapis the vine plenty of room and plenty to 
i, e., prune it long and we think it will bear 
aitinciory crops when four years old.” 
We tried it in vain. 
Mr. Samuel Miller suggests to plant the Clin- 
ton among Taylor to fertilize them, but we find 
the benefits resulting from this system also in- 
sufficient to balapce its many inconveniences; 
and yet we have seen Taylor vines grown 
themselves on the ‘‘Souche” plan (the shape of 
asmall weeping-willow tree, allowing the canes 
to grow from the top and not from the base of 
the main trunk, spur pruning in winter but not 
suppressing the growth by summer pruning) 
produce from 5 to10 Ibs. per vine. The bunches 
SENASQUA. 
are small, but compact and sometimes shoul- 
mall, white to pale amber, turn- 
ing even to pale red, like Delaware when 
perfectly ripe, round, sweet aud without pulp. 
Skin translucent, very thin but tough. Vinea 
very strong, rampant grower, healthy and very 
hardy. Roots comparatively few, wiry and 
very tough, with a thin, hard liber. The young 
spongioles will push as rapidly as the Phyllox- 
era can destroy them; hence this variety pos- 
sesses great power of resistance to the insect. 
Its wine is of good body and fine flavor, more 
closely resembling the celebrated Riesling of 
the Rhine than perhaps any other of our Amer- 
ican varieties. Some very promising seedlings 
of the Taylor are now introduced. See Zivira. 
Telegraph. (Labr.) Aseedling raised by 
a Mr. Christine, near Westchester, Chester Co., 
Pa., and named by P. R. Freas, editor of 
the Germantown Telegraph (one of the best 
agricultural papers in the East). An attempt 
