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STATE HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 
THE JANESVILLE GRAPE 
originated with F. W. 
Louden of Janesville, 
Wisconsin, from seed 
saved at the Kock Co. 
Fair, in 1858, fruiting 
the third year from the 
seed. The vine is heal¬ 
thy, perfectly hardy, 
of strong luxuriant 
growth, and very pro¬ 
ductive, ripening about 
the middle of August; 
bunches medium, com¬ 
pact, and shouldered ; 
berries large, round, 
black, covered with a 
light bloom ; flavor 
sprightly, not very 
rich; fair, but not first-rate; producing a first-rate red wine, 
(not quite equal to the best European grape, as is claimed for 
most new candidates), but possessing characteristics greatly 
surpassing man}^ of the kinds now in cultivation ; enduring 
the severe cold cf the past seven winters without protection, 
bearing abundantly each year. The state society offered a 
premium for tlie best seedling grape, fruit to be shown for three 
successive years. At the fall exhibition of 1868, the premium 
was awarded to the Janesville, as the best and worthy of cul¬ 
tivation, and christened by the president as the Janesville,” 
from the city of its origin. 
The demand for new seedlings has had the effect to put the 
whole horticultural fraternity on the qui vive for new Siberi¬ 
ans, and already some scores have been figured and described 
by our leading pomologists in various horticultural journals. 
At this fair there are on exhibition forty-seven varieties by 
actual count. Among these are some new fall sorts of deci- 
