This extra early aucl delicious (Irape was found by Mr. J. M. Paul, ol North Adams, Mass., 
growing in a garden on the side of the Green Moutttains, -in Vermont, at an altitude of i,4Cxd feet, where 
he found it ripened its frnit perfectly. It is a very strong, vigoron.s and healthy growing vine, of re- 
markable productiveness and hardine.ss, and withal so early, that it does not fail to fully ripen its fruit 
in the locality where it w^as found, or in any other place where it lias been planted. We have tested 
it three years in our soil. The two first seasons it ripened its fruit by the 25th of August, and the last 
season, which was a very late one, it was ripe by September 1st. We have set vines of the Delaware, 
Brighton, Iona, Prentis, Rebecca, Eldorado, Croton, Walter and other sorts of like character, 
but they all mildew in our soil so badly that they fail to ripen their fruit and we have been obliged to 
discard them. The “Green Mountain ’’ has not failed to produce and ripen a full crop in the three 
years we have tested it. The vine grows as strong as the Concord and will flourish in any soil where 
the Concord grows, and is nearly three weeks earlier. It may truly be called in Southern Connecticut 
an August grape. The color of the grape is green or greenish white when ripe. The quality is su- 
perb. The skin very thin ; the pulp exceedingly tender and sweet, containing from one to two seeds 
only, which separates from the pulp by the slightest pfe.ssure after slipping from the skin. We have 
handed bunches of the Green Mountain to several persons to test its quality and the first exclamation 
is, “ Oh! isn’t that .splendid ! ” We do not remember of a single person who has tasted the grape 
but was delighted with it, and many say that it is the most like a hot house grape of any out-door grape 
they ever tasted. We do not believe there is an early grape superior to it in quality; that bears young- 
er; is more productive, or that is more desirable for an early grape than this one. It is especially well 
adapted to -be grown in northern. localities where the Concord, Brighton, Niagara, Delaware, Prock- 
liugton and many other valuable varieties, oftentimes fail, or perhaps never ripen, and in those local- 
ities wdiere these sorts do ripen, the Green Mountain is equally- desirable, as it will lengthen the grape 
