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THE GRAPE. 
Concord. 
This fine hardy native grape was raised from seed by E. W. 
Bull, Concord, Mass. It is of very healthy, vigorous habit, and 
exceedingly productive. Bunch rather compact, large shouldered. 
Berries large, globular, almost black, thickly covered with bloom. 
Skin rather thick, with more of the native pungency and aroma 
than the Isabella, which it resembles, but does not quite equal in 
quality. Flesh moderately juicy, rather buttery, very sweet, 
with considerable toughness and acidity in its pulp. It is more 
hardy than the Isabella and ripens about ten days earlier, con- 
sequently it is a very valuable variety for a large northern range 
where the Isabella does not ripen. 
Delaware. 
Heath. 
EeTSnJ erectly. 
The precise origin of this grape is not known. We have the 
following account of it from our friend, A. Thomson of Dela- 
ware, Ohio, to whose appreciative taste and liberality the country 
is indebted for the introduction of our best hardy table grape. 
Among an indiscriminate mixture brought to Delaware for 
sale by a German, he found this, whose excellence immediately 
attracted his attention, and on inquiry as to its history, he found 
it in the possession of some German emigrants who said they 
brought it from New Jersey some eighteen years ago, having 
obtained it from the garden of a French gentleman named Paul 
H. Provost, in Kingswood township, Hunterdon Co., N. J. It 
was known in that vicinity as the “ Italian wine grape,” and had 
been received by Mr. Provost many years before from a brother 
residing'in Italy. 
By some German wine-growers in Cincinnati, it has been 
thought to be Traminer, and by others the Red Resling, two 
celebrated wine grapes of Germany, to which its fruit bears a 
strong resemblance, but from which, in wood and foliage, it is 
as distinct as any of our native grapes. Mr. Thomson thinks it 
must have been an accidental seedling that sprang up in that 
garden, as it is free from blight and mildew, never prematurely 
losing its leaves, and seeming to luxuriate in our climate, which 
cannot be said of any foreign variety with which we are ac- 
quainted. Bunch small, very compact, and generally shouldered. 
Berries smallish, round when not compressed. Skin thin, of 
a beautiful light-red or flesh colour, very translucent, passing to 
wine colour by long keeping. It is without hardness or acidity 
in its pulp, exceedingly sweet but sprightly, vinous, and aromatic, 
and is well characterised by Mr. Prince as our highest flavoured 
and most delicious hardy grape. It is a vigorous grower, an 
early and profuse bearer, and probably more hardy than Isabella 
