PRICE FIVK CENTS 
$2.00 PER YEAR. 
NEW YORK, DEC. 2, 1882 
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abundant in number, but so diminished in 
size as to quite unfit them for either the table 
or the market. In quality it ranks -well up 
among this wonderful batch of hybrids— 
wonderful, when we consider the parentage, 
especially on the native side—but I cannot 
consider it high in quality, as compared with 
very many of our recent native seedlings. 
I quite agree with a casual remark of Mr. 
Cuarles Downing, made some years since, in 
private conversation, that all the Rogers's 
Hybrids are likely to “go to the wall” for 
lack of high Quality. T. T. Lyon. 
SEVERAL OPINIONS 
(ILLUSTRATIONS FROM NATURE.) 
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The Salem Grape is undoubtedly one of 
the best of Rogers’s Hybrids; indeed, it is 
understood by many to be Mr. Rogers’s 
favorite, consequently the name of his town 
is given it. At its best it has a bunch large, 
short, broad, compact; berry large, round, a 
little darker red than the Catawba; pulp 
sweet, aromatic and high flavored. Asgrown 
in Connecticut, it is very rich in quality and 
a little earlier than the Concord. In some 
instances it has failed to set its fruit well, 
and sometimes it mildews. Like many other 
away from tine piaco oi its ungm, 
little can be said of it from personal ex¬ 
perience. I have found it a vigorous 
grower, with healthy foliage, and have yet 
to hear of any objection to it in this respect. 
If I may judge from specimens seen at various 
exhibitions at which I have been privileged 
to test it in comparison with many others, I 
must characterize it as one of the finest of the 
new white grapes, so far as appearance and 
quality are concerned; while the bunch is of 
medium size, and, from itB compactness and 
the toughness of its skin, it is, to all appear¬ 
ance, well qualified t© bear the rough hand¬ 
ling to which a market grape must be sub¬ 
jected. The charge was made, sometime 
since, that it is a seedling of the Rebecca, a 
charge which, judging from the fruit alone, 
The Mew White Grape Prentiss.—From Nature 
Fig. 443. 
The Prentiss Grape.— This new and de¬ 
licious grape has been widely disseminated. 
The cluster is of moderate size, very compact; 
terries a little below medium, of a greenish 
white, and generally crowding in the clusters; 
the skin, though thin, is tough and it bears 
Handling vary well, and is an excellent 
keeper. Next to the Duchess I think the 
Prentiss the best white grape in quality; but 
iu hardiness it surpasses the Duchess, though 
not equal in this respect to the Concord. I 
have planted some 15 or 18 vines in my vine¬ 
yard and think it promises well; next year I 
ahull expect fruit. Like the Delaware it will 
need the best care and management to make 
it successful. I 5 - M. Augur. 
Middlefleld, Conn. 
The Salem Grape is certainly one of the 
best of the so-called red grapes, among Mr. 
Rogers’s remarkable hybrid varieties. It was 
first sent out by Mr. Rogers as No. 33. This 
number was afterwards changed, 1 think, to 
No. 53; and the same grape indicated by both 
these numbers was subsequently named 
Salem, being the first one of these hybrids 
that received a distinctive name. Mr. Rogers 
at this time considered this grape as the best 
of his production; and in favorable locations, 
where It matures perfectly, it is perhaps un¬ 
excelled in quality by any other of his hybrids. 
It is, however, in unfavorable seasons, subject 
to mildew, with premature loss of foliage; 
and it is not hardy enough to withstand the 
cold of our severe Winters without protection. 
might seem probable; but the wood and 
foliage are quite unlike those of the Rebecca; 
while to my apprehension it could hardly re¬ 
ceive higher commendation than to be ranked 
with it in quality. 
Salem may doubtless be said to be the 
largest of Rogers’s Hybrids. The plant is 
very vigorous, making long, stout canes 
clothed with large, rich, substantial foliage, 
which, however, I regret to say, seems to in¬ 
herit (doubtless from its foreign parent), a 
slight liability to mildew. It also, along with 
the vigor of its wild, native parent, inherits 
its habit of collecting only a few very large 
berries in the bunch; and, with the neglect of 
pruning and cultivation, its bunches become 
mm. 
The Red Grape (Rogers) Salem.-From Nature.— Fig. 441 
ings would with neglect. Those who are 
willing to take the Salem for what it is, 
and give it the requisite care and attention, 
especially as a family grape, may raise it suc¬ 
cessfully; but as a common vineyard grape 
for general planting, I think it would not be 
generally profitable. 
hybrid grapes, it abhors neglect. Give it a 
good border on the sheltered sid9 of a build¬ 
ing or a tight board fence; prune so as to take 
out much of the old wood, and give good 
new arms for bearing, and the probability is 
a fair fruitage. 
The following praotice will be found a good 
