THE GRAPE-VINE. 



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diiced should all go back into the cask, and the top of the 

 wme should be stirred ; the cask is then bunged up and 

 left until the wine is clear ; the froth produced aids in the 

 process of fining. 



A fine, spai^ling, or Champagne wine, is produced by 

 the addition of Eock Oandj to each flask, when the wine 

 is bottled. The amount required is not divulged. 



FOREIGN VARIETIES. 



Delaware County. — A small grape, color of Catawba ; 

 bunches small ; skin thin, transparent ; juice brisk and 

 vinous; one of the best table grapes. Vine like the 

 foreign grape — said to be the Traminier grape of Germany. 

 Succeeds well in New Jersey and Ohio. Worthy of trial. 



Devereaux. — The best foreign grape for open air culture. 

 Branches about six inches long, shouldered ; making them 

 some three inches broad at the base ; berries generally 

 with one seed, medium, round, very compact or crowded 

 on the bunch ; skin thin, black and covered with blue 

 bloom ; flesh juicy, with a brisk, agreeable flavor, much 

 better than the native grapes. A great bearer and free 

 from rot. Hipens middle of August. 



Sherry. — Bunches medium size, shouldered, compact ; 

 skin thin, black covered with blue bloom ; berries round, 

 medium size, with one stone ; flesh very juicy, rich, high- 

 flavored and exceedingly sweet— much better than Blue 

 Frontignan. Eesembles Devereaux, and may be identi- 

 cal ; but the bunches are not so large and the berries are 

 more sugary and high-flavored ; this may be an accident 

 of aspect or soil. Does not rot. The best grape cul- 

 tivated here. 



The Black Cluster, Blue Frontignan, Early Chasselas, 

 Black Hamburgh and Miller's Burgundy, if well cultivated 

 and protected by a coping, succeed here. 



