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wild wine-grape, of which I had previously sent you cuttings, and you yourself 

 planted. I was firmly assured that the fruits are very excellently sweet, free 

 of foxy smell and taste, and taste exactly like rare wine-grapes« All of this is 

 untrue - the fruits are much sroaller than the Mustang V. candicans , entirely black 

 and very sweet, but the skin just as astringent, foxy etc. as the Mustangs. As soon 

 as I have seed of the Opuntia and canes of the white Monticola I will write again. 



Hespectfully, your faithful, 

 John 0. Mensebach 



