840 THE GRAPE. 
mg bearer, and particularly fitted for those southern latitudes 
that are liable to injury from late frosts in spring and early 
frosts in autumn, as it flowers very late and ripens its fruit 
early. Its leaves in autumn are the last to yield to frost, re- 
maining perfectly green and vigorous after all others have 
withered or fallen, consequently it has often an amount of 
unripened wood which should be cut off before winter. 
Bunch very large and exceedingly compact, shouldered. Ber- 
ries below medium, round, dark blue, or violet, covered with a 
thick light bloom. Skin thin, which is filled with a sweet, rich, 
vinous, aromatic juice, of so little consistence, that it cannot be 
called flesh. 
Lenoir, Long, Devereaux, and Thurmond—Under the above 
names, grapes much resembling in character the Herbemont, are 
grown inthe Southern states, and we have hitherto considered 
them synonymous of it; but all our southern friends claim that 
Lenoir is a distinct variety, and much earlier than any of the 
others, and also at least that some of the others are distinct. 
The matter is now under investigation, and we must wait the 
result before deciding. 
Hopson. 
Originated in the garden of Mr. Calkins, Hudson, N. Y 
Growth similar to Isabella, and said to be two or three weeks 
earlier. Bunch and berry much the same, but less sprightly 
and not quite so rich, 
Hype’s Exiza. 
Bunch medium, compact, often with a small shoulder. Berry 
medium size, round, black, covered with a thin, light bloom, 
Flesh tolerably juicy, somewhat buttery, with a pleasant vinous 
flavour. Ripe a few days before Isabella. 
Isapetta. Prin. Ken. Adlum. 
This very popular grape, a native of South Carolina, was 
Lrought to the north and introduced to the notice of cultivators 
about the year 1818, by Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, the wife of George 
Gibbs, Esq., in honour of whom it was named. Its great vigour, 
hardiness, and productiveness, with the least possible care, have 
caused it to be most widely disseminated. A vine growing 
here has borne 12 bushels of grapes in a single year. It is, per- 
haps, a little more hardy, and ripens earlier than the Catawba, 
which renders it valuable at the northern part of this state, or 
the colder portion of New-England. No farmer’s garden, how 
ever small, should be without this and the Catawba. 
Bunches of good size—five to seven inches long, rather 
