The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1870-11-08

Itui, tS HtnI DtiOTC,tuSftS
differ and it's not one grape that is 20.
ing to suis the multitude, no matter what
ourEumelan or Walter friends may say
for man who would wish either Eu.
melan or a Walter, would spurn the Ives
as fit only, as it is, for making good,
rich, red wine. You ask, What is this
next? Why, it is
ELsINBoRo.
You say its punches and berries look
like Norton's Virginia. So they do -
but while Norton's is only fit for heavy
red wine, this little neglected grape is
sprightly, rich and sweet, to eat out of
hand, as you see. You like it Yes, so
| supposed you would and twenty years
ago it was gem among grapes for table
use in the early part of the grape season;
but its day has gone by, and while l like
and keep it, yet if you or had room for
fifty vines, we would not plant it. But
it is good, and proof that not all the
largest products of this earth are best.
My wife and my children like it, and
| think they are good judges. Here
next is
BLACK HAWK,
with small round, compact punches; ber-
ries of about the size of Concord sweet
and rich, but so foxy-bah how could
any sensible man like its originator, and,
knowing the progress of grape knowledge
ever have the hardihood to send it out
Our next is
ALvERY,
which you see is small, little more than
half the size Of the Isabella, with loose,
struggling poor lunches; but the grape,
as you taste, is good, yet not as good as
Miles, whose punches are better nor is
it as good as the Telegraph, although it
may be little richer and more astrng-
ent But, to 90 a little further, step here
to a
CONCORD.
Why, this is just as ripe and a great
deal better. No sensible man will ever
be the planter of Avery, except for the
purpose of making up a variety. Next
in our row is
OTHELLO,
or Arnold's No. |, with fine, handsome
bunch berries of about two-thirds the
size of Concord, and with harsh, Gin
ton character of flesh, and an acid that
may soften if the season is long enough.
It's not fit to eat now, any more than
Clinton, Catawba, Iona, Norton, or Her.
bemont, etc.-of which, at future day you
are invited to 90 with me and examine,
if so you would like.
You say l have passed the Hartford
and the Concord Yes, so | have; but
only because | thought you knew them so
well that we had not a word to spy. But
let's take thought On my clay land
here, as you see, Hartford holds its ber-
ries well, yet in my neighbor'sjust across
the road, in sandy loan, they drop as soon
as well colored. The Hartford, as you
taste, is sweeter, but more foxy or musky
than the Concord, and although it does
really ripen a few days sooner, yet the
Concord, in warm localities, will 90 into
market as soon, and because of its COM
pact and better punches, will sell first.
But you would not discard the Hart.
ford ?"
mo. And yet would never plant it
for market if l could get Telegraph. |
would always have a few vines for my
own and children's eating, for there is
sweetness combined with its
strong native character, that makes it al
ways liked" And what is this next
This big bunch and berry? That ! oh,
that is the
Came to me as Roger 5, from the worlds
friend, Hon. Marshall p Wilder; and
while it is noble grape, it has not the
over other varieties that char
actcrzes the man after whom it was nam
ed. The punches, as you see, are unev-
en- there are few large and splendid
ones and there are many with only two to
eight berries on them-a trait that the
hybridizing by Mr. Rogers of the native
with the foreign has kept to the native
strongly with all the sorts. For example,
here is Agawam, Massasoit, Merrimack,
&c. In all these varieties, however,
incline to the belief, as and others have
found practically with all the strong
growing sorts, that we must in pruning,
for all the lower or first buds to
be rubbed away and grow our fruit on
the buds beyond as well as on the strong
lateras Turn now to this vine of
AGAwAM
which | have so managed and see the
bunches-large, long, full and fair, while
the next to it, as you see, Of the same
sort, has only two to four good punches,
and the balance are broken ones with half
a dozen or so of berries to each The one
| trimmed according to my belief: the
other l let alone.
But Frank you have said nothing of,
nor shown me the
EUMELAN.'
No; that's So passed it for while
the vines, as you know, are good growers,
it has not been set out, until the past
year, into hands except where DR.. Grant
thought he could win approval. That it
is good grower, and good grape, none
who have seen the vines Or eaten Of the
fruit can doubt; but its proftableness is
its bearing qualities, its general form
of punches, and its actual period of COM
ing into eating condition are points yet to
be learned, and only learned as we are
now learning by comparing them, vine
and vine, side and side, variety to varie-
ty.
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK.