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known, and wlio left no account of them. It is still commonly 
known as the Segar Box in that vicinity. 
It is now supposed to be the same as the Jack Grape culti- 
vated near Natchez, Mississippi, and was so called from an old 
Spaniard of the name of Jaques, who introduced the vine. It 
is most likely a foreign sort, and, except in a few localities, a 
sandy soil and a mild, climate, it is not likely to succeed ; it will 
not stand our winters here. 
The wood is strong, long jointed, lighter red than that of the 
Norton’s Virginia, and smooth, with peculiarly pointed buds. 
Leaves large, trilobed. 
Bunches large and long, from six tc 
ten inches, and often fifteen inches in 
length, rather loose, tapering, shoulder- 
ed. Berries, small, round. Skin thin, 
purple, with a blue bloom. Flesh tender, 
and melting, without any pulp, brisk and 
vinous. 
This grape is a good bearer, requires to 
be well pruned, and the wood laid-in thin 
and long. 
Ohio . 
Raabe. 
Raised by Peter Raabe, (thought to be hardy.) 
Bunches small, compact, rarely shouldered. Berry below 
medium size, round, dark red, thickly covered with bloom. 
Flesh very juicy, with scarcely any pulp. Flavour saccharine, 
with a good deal of the Catawba aroma. Quality “best.” (Ad. 
Int. Rep.) 
Rebecca. 
A new variety. First disseminated last season. 
Bunches nearly cylindric, about four inches long by two and 
a half inches in diameter, very compact, and heavy, often 
shouldered. Berries of full, medium size, oval, and generally 
much compressed, strongly adhering to the peduncle. Colour 
light green in the shade, auburn or golden in the sun, and 
covered with a light bloom, considerably translucent. Flesh 
of some consistence, juicy, sweet, and delicious, with a per- 
ceptible native perfume, but very agreeable. It has no tough- 
ness or acidity in its pulp, and ripens eight or ten days ear- 
lier than Isabella, and keeping a long time after it is ga- 
thered. 
This superior hardy white grape is undoubtedly a native — a 
chance seedling in the garden of E. M. Peake, of Hudson, N. 
V., where it has been growing about nine years, and there 
