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Gift of ' 
Earl Blough 
November 1957 
% ^Mplcrafiitiin friccit fist uf f Innts, 
FOR SALE IX TITK SrRIXG OF 1858. 
BY 
W. C. STRON&, NONANTUM HILL, BRIGHTON, MASS., 
(FIVK MILES FROM BOSTON. 1 
Coaches for the Nursery leave Boston, from No. 16 Tremont St., every hour. 
A full descriptive Catalaguc of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Flowers, will be sent to applicants 
on receipt of a Post Office Stamp. 
New Hardy Grapes. New Foreign Grapes. 
REBECC.\, I'ER Do/K.v, .... $12.00 BOWOOD MUSCAT, Each, . . . S^.OO 
DELAWARE, " .... 2-1.00 GOLDEN HAMBURG, "... 0.00 
CONCORD, " .... 7.;jO 
ALSO, THE FOLLOWING VAKIETIES FOR AMATEURS, VIZ.: 
Arkansas, Canby's August, Clara, Clinton, Carter, Emily, El.^enbnrg, Garrigues, Hartford ProliHc, Hudson, Hyde's VX\/.% 
Lenoir, Marion, Massacluisett-s WIdte, Minor, Raabe, To Kalon, Union Village, and the well known Isabella, Diana, and Catawba, 
all at the lowest market rates. 07° No Extra Charge for Package and Delivery of Orape Vines at any Express OHice in Bo<.ton. 
Fine Plants of most of the above varieties, with good roots and well ripened wood, can be furnished. .Subjoined arc 
extracts from distinguished sources in respect to the high character of the above Grapes. 
[From " Downing's Frvils of America," Edition nf 18.j7.] 
REBECCA.— Color li<rht green in shade, auburn or golden in the sun, and covered with a light bloom, considerably trans- 
•luscent; flesh of some consi^ence, juicy, s«'eet, and delicious, with a perceptible native perfume, but very agreeable; it has no 
tou<rhnes3 or acidity in its pulp, and ripens eight or ten days earlier than the Isabella, and keeps a long t,mc ajler H ,s gathered. It 
is not so vigorous in habit as tlie Isabella and Catawba, but healthy and not .lisposed to mildew, and being cxceedmgly beaut.fi.l 
ns well as excellent, it must be regarded as a very great acquisiltoli. 
DELAWARE.— It is free from blight and mildew, never prematurely losing its leaves ; bunch small, very compact, and 
generally shouldered; berries smallish, round wlien not compressed; skin thin, of a beautiful light red or flesh color, very trans- 
kiscent, passing to wine color by long keeping ; it is without hardness or acidity in its pulp, exceedingly sweet, but sprightly, vmous, 
and aromatic. 
[./. Jinj Smith, Editor of " Tlie Hurlim'turist,'' p. 5H, JVov. KS.v.] 
Good as the Dcdaware is, the Rebecca is very superior, and we are free to say it i.s, in our opinion, the best ont-of-door grape 
we have. A good crop of it will lake the place ahnod of the hot-house productions. We insert the word "almost" after the fore- 
going', in consequence of bavin- from a valued friend suck specimens of niack Hamburg and IMuscats ns made ns waver a little. 
. But hi these times, when coal and labor arc expensive, the Rebecca is a capital substitute, ami the Delaware also. From tins lime 
forward wo give up the Catawba for a table grape, and graft on the vinos these two. 
