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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1915 



KING ALFRED DAFFODIL— the re- 

 gal aristocrat of the trumpet flowered 

 Narcissi is the most notable variety 

 ever offered to American growers. 



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 This handsomely illustrated Bulb Book has only a limited 

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OUR SPECIAL OFFER— To be able to purchase King 

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 for 30 days from date of this issue. King Alfred and Sir 

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 trumpet flowers of a rich golden yellow. 



Prices— Each, $.40; per doz., $4.00; per 100, $28.00 



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100 Hyacinths (Bedding size) $3.00 

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Wild Grape Jellies 



IN EASTERN Pennsylvania, from the Delaware 

 to the west branch of the Susquehanna, and 

 down to Chesapeake Bay, wild grapes occur abun- 

 dantly along streams and roadsides. In many 

 districts no use is made of any of the five or six 

 species, because only one of the sorts (Vitis vulpina 

 of Britton & Brown) commends itself to be eaten 

 out of hand. As cooking grapes, however, the best 

 cultivated sorts — even the brown skinned Rogers 

 seedlings found in old family arbors planted before 

 1880 — cannot compare in richness and perfume 

 with the wild sorts. It is not easy to make the 

 juice of Concords "jell" unless the fruit is so unripe 

 as to be nearly colorless; and other cultivated 

 grapes have this same drawback. Theoretically, it 

 is because the acidity has been bred out of them. 

 Concords and Delawares generally will not "jell" 

 at all after they have become ripe enough to give 

 a syrup of a grapy taste. 



Wild grapes, green or dead ripe, always set a good 

 firm jelly. (I cannot speak for the Scuppernong 

 varieties as I have never had an opportunity to 

 try them.) Further, the green stage gives a 

 lighter jelly than the ripe and of different flavor, 

 with every variety. Roughly speaking, the five 

 or six kinds of green wild grape jelly or preserve 

 taste alike, the frost grape excepted. The jellies 

 are light pink in color, acid and aromatic without 

 much perfume. But the same grapes ripened made 

 five jellies different in color and taste. 



The scented grape, V. vulpina, is very easily 

 found by its fragrance. It is a climber of high 

 trees by preference, though, and is not as easily 

 procured as found. This black grape has little 

 bloom in shady ravines, and a dense blue bloom 

 when chance has grown it over hazel bushes and 

 stone walls in the open; but it fruits heaviest in 

 the shade and up high above ground. It makes a 

 royal purple jelly, only slightly musky. This 

 grape ripens in August, and by September is not 

 easy to pick unless one can spread papers under the 

 trees to catch the berries that drop singly. This 

 sweet grape should be boiled in a covered porcelain 

 kettle with only enough water to cover the berries 

 and no stems left on. Twenty minutes should 

 bring the fruit to a pulp. It is best squeezed hot 

 through a linen huck or crash bag and then cleared 

 with a flannel bag. This is the only one of the 

 wild grapes that gives any trouble about setting 

 jelly. If it does so, it is because the juice has been 

 too many times heated and cooled. When it is 

 cleared through the woolen bag, it should be 

 measured hot and put back to boil hard fifteen 

 minutes uncovered. Sugar is then added, pound 

 for pint of the measured juice, the syrup boiled 

 for five minutes, skimmed, and poured at once 

 into glasses. Do not disturb for ten hours, and a 

 firm beautiful jelly will result. 



The sand grape, Vitis rupestris, is very like this 

 in flavor and is best treated in the same careful 

 way. 



Vitis aestivalis and Vitis bicolor are both sour 

 purple-black sorts. Bicolor, the smaller and later, 

 is the poorer in every way. Possibly because 

 birds have, ages since, discriminated against it for 

 quality, it is not as widely disseminated nor as 

 abundant as the larger and earlier aestivalis. 

 Aestivalis has a stubby pompon of a cluster, largish 



