THE GRAPE. 339 
dered. Berry below medium, from three eighths to one half an 
inch in diameter, round, pale red. Flesh very juicy, with little 
orno pulp, Flavour saccharine and delicious, quality “ best” for 
an out-door grape. (Ad. Int. Rep.) 
GARRIGUES. 
_ Raised by Edward Garrigues Kingsessing, Philadelphia. A 
vigorous grower, hardy and productive, very much resembles 
Isabella and no doubt a seedling of it. Bunch large, loose, 
shouldered. Berries large, oval, dark purple, covered with a 
thick bloom. Flesh with little toughness in its ‘pulp, juicy, 
sweet, and rich—ripe eight or ten days before Isabella. 
GrawamM. 
An accidental seedling introduced by Wm. Graham, of Phi- 
ladelphia. Bunch of medium size, shouldered, not compact. 
Berry half an inch in diameter, round, purple, thickly covered 
with a blue bloom, contains little or no: pulp, and abounds in 
er juice of agreeable flavour, quality “best.” (Ad.. Int. 
ep. ; 
Harrrorp Prouiric. 
Raised by Mr. Steel of Hartford, Conn. Hardy, vigorous, and 
a sgt ee Bunch large, shouldered, rather compact: . Berry 
arge, globular, with a good deal of. the native perfume. Skin 
thick, black, covered with a bloom. Flesh sweet, moderately 
juicy with considerable toughness and acidity in its pulp; ripe 
about ten days before Isabella. 
HERBEMONT. 
Warren. Warrenton, 
Herbemont’s Madeira. Neal Grape, 
Origin claimed for many localities, but‘ not yet fully ascertain- 
ed. This is the most rampant grower of all our hardy grapes, 
and under favourable circumstances yields a fruit of surpassing -- 
excellence with which the nicest detector of foxiness, thickness of _ 
skin, toughness or acidity of pulp, can find no fault ; north of 
Philadelphia it needs a warm exposure or favourable season for 
the fall development of all its excellences. In our village under 
the care of a lady, it has not failed for many years to give’a 
most abundant crop of perfectly.ripened fruit, and without pro- 
tection has not suffered at all from winter killing. A very old 
vine in Baltimore, which had never before failed to produce 
abundantly since’its first bearing, had, last winter when the mer- 
eury fell to 19° below zero, all its young wood killed ; but 
prdimarily in that latitude and further south, it is an unfail- 
