. American grape growing and wine making. to him or me,for any vines or wood until some months yet. Xo. 5. Transparent.—(Taylor seedling). Bunchmedium, somewhat larger than the largest Taylor, andhas increased in size already, compact, and shouldered ;berry about same size as Taylor, round, pale yellow, trans-parent, so that the seeds can be seen, with gray dots, nopulp, skin thin, very juicy, sweet, and of fine has always set its fruit perfectly, and as its mustcontains a large amount of saccharine matter, will make awine which has hardly had its equal yet. Vine a strongand rather
. American grape growing and wine making. to him or me,for any vines or wood until some months yet. Xo. 5. Transparent.—(Taylor seedling). Bunchmedium, somewhat larger than the largest Taylor, andhas increased in size already, compact, and shouldered ;berry about same size as Taylor, round, pale yellow, trans-parent, so that the seeds can be seen, with gray dots, nopulp, skin thin, very juicy, sweet, and of fine has always set its fruit perfectly, and as its mustcontains a large amount of saccharine matter, will make awine which has hardly had its equal yet. Vine a strongand rather long-jointed grower, resembling its parent inleaf and growth. No. 8. Ambeb.—(Taylor seedling). Bunch large,shouldered, moderately compact; berry medium, oblong,pale amber when fully ripe, sweet, juicy ; pulp very ten-der ; skin thin, very fine flavor. Ripens about the sametime as Catawba, very productive so far, and entirelyhardy and healthy. An exquisite table grape, combiningfine quahty with attractive appearance, though its skin. Fig. 14.—AMBER. (71) AKD WIKE ^tlAKIKa. 73 may be too tender to sliip to distant markets. It will,no doubt, also make a very fine white wine. A stronggrower, dark brown wood, large and healthy leaves. Ko. 10. Peakl.—(Taylor seedling). Bunch heavy,larger than Elvira, compact, shouldered ; berry full me-dium, round, pale yellow, covered with a delicate bloom;skin thin and transparent; pulp soft and melting, juicy,sweet, and high flavored; of great promise both as a tableand wine grape; very productive and healthy so a few days later than Concord. Vine a stronghealthy grower, large, bright green leaves, and grayishwood. Mr. R. has a great number of other seedlings. One, aDelaware seedling, black, which ripens four or five daysbefore the Hartford, and may become valuable as an earlymarket grape, as it is of good quality. No. 12, much re-sembling Elvira, may also be valuable. No. 20.—A black Taylor seedling, with a peculiar plum-lik
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