Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-09-22
ffOm Loud5n's Encyclopedia q Ga,dsniAg.
THE GRAPE VINE-Con,pned

in the dessert it ranks pine, aud is by some ee
ed To it. Tie berries when green, likely to ripe
may De used in taris pies ani the leaves an ell,
CANT gabnish TO other table fruits. Wine is sometim
made IN England, expressing and fermentn Tho mic,
eher alone or with that Of other fruits, and il has eve
oeen made from the decocons OF the
Iii warmer climates the grape only in the dos
Set' ons eaten with Bread either newly gathered or rie
and IN these countries, from the fmented Juice
wine or liquor is made superior all Others for s,imua
ting the stomach and cxhila atng the spirits of man.
oome of the most Important in the vtco
gicai history of man. referred last mentioned oa
htics. (See the histories Lot, Nuah and R,..L,,.
The medical products Of the vine are per;,ic. f,a
used as the juice ofIemons tartar gentle RIM
far, used condimen for extracting the virtues of
medicines, and fr couneracting the
poison Even wine itself is given medicine in Tvphu
iever-in nervous dsordes-in putrid threats,
even in the plague. I'm almost all of anruor am
prosraon OF strength, Juariyp observes Swine is more
grateful and efcacious cordial than can be furnished
the whole class of aromatics"
tdriefieS-rhcse exceedingly numerous: partIv
from the antiquity of the vine, it having Professor
Martyr remarks been cuva ted from the time of N,ob.
partly from the influence of soils climates in shanrinn
the qualities of grapes, there being hardly two
In France or iay where the sorts, though originally the
same, remain long precisely alke but chiefly as far as
respects this country at least from the facility with which
new sorts are procured from seed 1asser, 1862 men,
tions only "whe and red grapes PaIfi,,sou who wa
more of horcuurs gives, in 1927, lis, of tw,nv.
three SORTS, including the white rnuscaCinc "vetv Great
sweet and firm, of tlie birbes bav ,ycictea 90;
pounds and of the berries half OUNCE Ran in
1885, enumeraes IL then most in REQUEST Ren
IN IIo2, gives most of those in Rays list and adds five
the N rInie
or royal muscddine, the FroRgnacs the blood-fed
as the fes sorts oI England The best vines he saws
were then on the walls of the Physc garden at Orrord
SUltSer, in 17lT, says, at is Lord Canal and Sir
Uidam Temple, that owing that collection of GOOD
grapes now so plenty in Engia,.d; latter" he SAYS
drought the ChusseLds Paysley and Eronjjc,1n
and also the -lndoryna, Burgiuuiy Black H.scai and
Grissy FrontgnGc; all highly approved and distributed
amongst the nurserynen, as well as the nobility gem
try" "ihe best grapes,' he tells us. 'were grown al
TUicke7lhGH, isLeuorD aud Richn,o,,a" Spe.chh from
176o 10 $780, exceled in the culture The vine at JYe
beck.
The valuable modern additions to the varieties of
grapes in this country, have been procured by sowing
seeds of sorts rpened in this country That
the red Han,5urgh ,om seed about centmrv
ago, by Harner, of Iofherhuhe already mentioned Nil
Ter in the produced the variety ofBlaek
which bears his name Specify produced various new
Sorts which have place in the catalogues nursery
men Williams Of Pihnaster, Braddick of Thames Diion
and above ALL the President of The horticultural Socaf
have raised several excellent varieties Of the Sweewae
Chasselas, and Hamburger The great
paid to Natural History by as go abroad has also
contributed to the number grapes. New sorts have been
sent from SPAN, ltdi, aud the East indies md mann
from Frame; that the lists of British nurservnen
exceed ESQ In France during the eousushiu i'm
lSol the celebrated chemist, Ch0pfai when Minister Of
the nerior ordered specimen of variety
the grape be collerted from different
where the vine and planted in the nursery of the
Lurem6g garden, with view ascertain their respec-
tive merits Enough this assortment Completed
the number collected mounted upwa rs hundred
distinct varieties.
classification OF the tics of the vine has
not yet been made either france or England Gosc
the inspector of government in France was M
pluycd compare class those collected IT ,be fnre
6nrS; but IN 1909 he had only succeeded ,,
figuring SO distinct The ground work of his classif-
cation was, the color, form nd size of fruit; surfa
texture, colour, and position YES and the
redress greeness or variegaon of the fontsalks From
these II characteristics combined, SO classes
which, he may he placed all the possible varieties
grapes Bose, Of the great variety Of
uf another order, which Brgent the number
sics, such grapes which in other respects alike vet
differ in time ofrpenng in the time they hang without
gunlt itv ucad,
plant quality OF the pulp &c acknowledges after four
years labnu he could offer useful result. Tie ca,a
ogue of the LAEemlurg collection published by Hervev
IN 1902, the arrangement is L. Vines with black oval
fruits, 81 9, black round fruits 90 sorts; = white
oval fruits, IA sorts; Il white nund fruits 81 so grey
or violet ova! ius, sorts; and ., grey violet round
fruits, 10 sorts; i'll all oG7 he elaborate ss-
cripons of the varieties of the vine, which vet ap-
pearcd, contained in Spanish Work EnsnIo sabre
tbs rdrtedGdes dc la rid cou que rcgetah 4ndaiusiG
nc. by ID. Simon Razos Cemee ran to the Bota mic
garden at Madrid This author Pounds his varieties or
the character Of the shoots leaves, flowers lunches
and berries He describes 100 varieties comprising the
in sections, downy and smooth eave section
arranged u tribes clusters Of subvaret;rs
common and distinguished by common char cter
IN some of the parts of the fundamental
above named, and into isolated varieties, which he DIES
crIbes sinsy He emumerates So authors who have writ
ten the vine, since Colnma, by whose names he has
distinguished many of the tribes the others by their
aIpeations.
Estimate Of Sorts.-As it is generally puzzmr cousi
dcraon FOR inexperienced persons make selection
The ample semi-descrptVe catalogues Of authors and
lists OF names kept by nurseymen shall here extract
| few selections suitable COInson cases.
Vines to plant against garden wall of sonI
exposure or against the walls Of bomseThe July black
white rnuscaGinc white and black ant
large black and white cluster black esperisue, &c.
To plant winery for early forcingTake the preceding
| sorts.
10 plant winery for full crop of good gapes OF yar
Gus favors-Take white and red black nuscadinc,
white and red musrat, wito and red Frontignac,
black red muscadcl, white raisin rape, amt
rcd Uambugh, Sitwells and red sweet-uaer, white
and red Vice.
There here 81 grapes OF II distinct navors, equal
number of both cooTs large snowy punches
as those OF the Nice aud small high favored those
OF the FTontgTldcS; the whole placed in the order
they will upen The foliage in autumn, will be alternate
ly tinged with red and yellow and surprising
dimes be placed the end which the Gue enters
they will rpcu nearly month earlier than any OF the
others: the muscals Fromtgnac, and mUscades being
house grapes will have sufficient heat ripen thcu nd
the three last sorts, being somewhat more tary, will come
IN succession.
1 Po plant winery for late cropTakc the black Dd
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