838 THE GRAPE. 
three weeks before the Isabella. Its bunches and berries are 
very greatly increased in size by high culture. 
Diana. 
A seedling of the Catawba raised by Mrs. Diana Crehore of 
Boston, and named by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
Its promise of excellence was first made known to the public by 
Mr. Hovey through his Magazine in 1844, and in 1849 the 
Horticulturist announced it the best and most beautiful of Ame 
rican grapes, particularly valuable for its earliness. For the Soutb 
it has proved even better than at the North. 
In its general appearance it bears a strong resemblance to its 
parent, but in its earliness of ripening and in the quality of its 
fruit, as well as in general hardiness and certainty of maturing its 
crops, it is greatly superiour to that fine variety. The berries 
are of the same globular shape, but not quite so large. The 
bunches regularly conic in form, large, very compact, and heavy, 
not properly shouldered, but often having a small bunch ap- 
pended by a long branch of the peduncle. 
The colour is a fine reddish lilac, thickly covered with bloom, 
and the berries generally marked with three or four indistinct 
star-like specks. The fruit when fully ripe abounds in fine rich 
juice, vinous, and aromatic, from which all the offensive native 
odor has disappeared. It hangs long on the vines, is not injured 
by severe frosts, and keeps admirably for winter use. It is ex- 
ceedingly productive and very vigorous. 
Exsinepureu. Ken. Prin. Adlum. 
Smart’s Elsingburg. § Elsenborough. 
A very nice little grape for the dessert, perfectly sweet and 
melting, without pulp, originally brought from a village of this 
name in Salem Co., New Jersey. It is not a great deal larger 
ic than the common Frost grape, in the size of the 
LE berry. A moderate, but regular bearer, ripens 
. well, and much esteemed by many for the table. 
Bunches pretty large, loose, and shouldered, 
( Berries, small, round. Skin thin, black, covered 
with a blue bloom. Flesh entirely without pulp, 
: melting, sweet, and excellent. The leaves are 
Hlsingburgh. deeply 5-lobed, pretty dark green, and the wood 
rather slender, with long joints. 
Emity. 
Raised by Peter Raabe near Philadelphia, not proved as to 
hardiness. Bunch large, not very compact, occasionaily shoul | 
