Vol. XXXIX. No. 50, 
Whole No. 1611. 
Price Five Cents, 
$2.00 Per Tear. 
[Entered aooordlntc to Act of Congress, In the year 1880, by the Rural New-Yorker, In the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.] 
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OUR GRAPE P0RTRAIT8 CONTINUED. 
The Bacchus Grape. 
Among the bunches of different kinds of 
grapes which Mr. Ricketts brought to this office 
black with bloom. The vine is said to be vig¬ 
orous, hardy and productive, while the 
bunches, as may be seen, are shouldered and 
about six inches long. It is a seedling of the 
Clinton, and Mr. Ricketts says that it has with 
him stood all possible tests for 12 years as to 
hardiness of leaf and fruit. Nothing is known 
as to whether it will thrive in different soils 
all of the peculiar qualities necessary in a wine 
grape of the first merit. It seems that the 
Bacchus grows leadily from cuttings, 952 hav¬ 
ing grown out of 1,000. 
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The Uticheiis Grape, 
Under date of Nov. 26th, Messrs. A. J. Cay- 
w^od & Son, of Marlborough, N. Y., write us: 
and all our best clusters are gone. Mr. Charles 
Downing told ub last night that the clusters we 
sent him six weeks ago are lying on the shelf, 
perfect, except that they are beginning to 
raisin. He remarked that they were getting 
as sweet as a raisin.” 
[The little box was received during the late 
cold snap. We can repeat Mr. Downing’s 
THE BACCHUS GRAPE—From Life.—Fig. 414, 
early in the Fall was the Bacchus, an engrav- and situations or not. Those who purchase “ We send you by mail to-day a taste of the words, “ They were beginning to raisin ” and 
ing »f three bunches of which (two in outline) the grape must take the risk, for they have Duchess Grape. We ought to have sent them “ were as sweet as a raisin.” "to our taste the 
is presented on this page. It is a wine nothing to guide them. Mr. Ricketts has ex- while they were fresh, but failed, to do so Duchess is an excellent grape. There is no 
grape. The berry is medium in size, as hibited this grape at many fairs, and those who through an oversight. These have been lying acidity about it, no foxiness; the flesh is ten- 
shown ; pulp, half tender and juicy; color, have eaten it agree, it is said, that it combines on a shelf in a closet for the past two months, der, the vine hardy and prolific. If we were 
