208 THE CULTURE OF THE BRAPE. 



ginia Seedling, Lenoir, ISTortli Carolina, Hunterville, 

 Franklin, and some otber varieties, good in every respect, 

 and none of which rotted this season. 



Sidney Wellek. 

 Brinkleyville, Halifax County, North Carolina. 



It is only by such tests as the above, that the grapes 

 which are suitable for a certain climate, can be ascer- 

 tained. It appears that the Scuppernong is the most 

 valuable for the south, — this is of no value whatever, at 

 the north, being more tender than the foreign kinds. In 

 Massachusetts, thus far, the Isabella is the only kind that 

 has really done well in all situations ; at the south, this 

 rots badly. 



The Syrian, Portion Noir, White Nice, Muscat of 

 Alexandria, and Verdelho, varieties of the grape that do 

 not push so early in the spring as other sorts, should be 

 tried at the south, as well as the kinds which ripen early. 

 This difference may cause some of them to escape dam- 

 age, from heavy rains, or other evils. The cluster grapes, 

 as Black July, Miller's Burgundy, Pitmaston, and others, 

 are more liable to suffer from the rot than the loose 

 growing kinds. Training them high, as in Italy, from 

 tree to tree, may be the means of preserving them from 

 the rot and blight. If this plan is tried, plant the vine 

 at a distance from the tree, so that the roots of the two 

 may not interfere. The vines may be trained, the two 

 or three first years, to a pole in the earth, and thence 

 carried by a cord, (or any other way that may recom- 

 mend itself,) to the tree ; thence up the trunk, and around 

 the three sides, resting upon a limb, over to the second 



