. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. 838 THE GRAPI!. three weeks before tlie Isabella. Its bunches and berries are very greatly increased in size by bigb culture. Diana. A seedling of the Catawba raised by Mrs. Diana Crehore of Boston, and named by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Its promise of excellence was first made known to the public by Mr. Hovey throug
. The fruits and fruit trees of America : or, The culture, propagation and management, in the garden and orchard, of fruit trees generally, with descriptions of all the finest varieties of fruit, native and foreign, cultivated in this country . Fruit-culture; Fruit. 838 THE GRAPI!. three weeks before tlie Isabella. Its bunches and berries are very greatly increased in size by bigb culture. Diana. A seedling of the Catawba raised by Mrs. Diana Crehore of Boston, and named by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Its promise of excellence was first made known to the public by Mr. Hovey through his Magazine in 1844, and in 1849 th» Horticulturist announced it the best and most beautiful of Ame- rican grapes, particularly valuable for its earliness. For the South It has proved even better than at the North. In its general appearance it bears a strong resemblance to its parent, but in its earliness of ripening and in the quality of its fruit, as well as in general hardiness and certainty of maturing its crops, it is greatly superiour to that fine variety. The berries are of the same globular shape, but not quite so large. The bunches regularly conic in form, large, very compact, and heavy, not properly shouldered, but often having a small bunch ap- pended by a long branch of the peduncle. The colour is a fine reddish lilac, thickly covered with bloom, and the berries generally marked with three or four indistinct star-like specks. The fruit when fully ripe abounds in fine rich juice, vinous, and aromatic, from which all the ofiensive native odor has disappeared. It hangs long on the vines, is not injured by severe frosts, and keeps admirably for winter use. It is ex- ceedingly productive and very vigorous. Elsingbueqh. Ken. Prin. Adlum. Smart's Elsingburg. Elsenborough. A very nice little grape for the dessert, perfectly sweet and roelting, without pulp, originally brought from a village of this name in Salem Co., New Jersey. It is not a great deal larger than the co
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