The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1886-04-24
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stony cells. To some the purple cluster
suggests Bacchanal revelry; to others,
sitting under ones own vine and fig-tree
in brief, a home. The vine is like We
man, the inspiration of the best and tie
worst.
| 1t may we'll become one of the dreams
of our life to own land if for no other
reason than that Of obtaining the privi-
lege of planting vines. AS they take
root, SO will we; and after we have eaten
their delicious fruit, the very thought of
leaving our acre will be repugnant. The
literature of the vine would fill a library;
the literature of love would crowd many
libraries, 1t is not essential to read
everything before we start a little vine,
yard or go accounting.
1t is said that about two thousand
known and uamed varieties of grapes
have been and are being grown in Eu-
rope, and all these are supposed to have
been developed from one species Wits
etHJera), which originally was the wild
product of nature, like those growing in
our thickets and forests. One can
scarcely suppose this possible when con-
templating cluster os Tokay or some
other highly developed variety of the
dollhouse. Yet the native vine, which
began to ''yieli fruit after his kind, the
third day" whatever may have been the
length of that day., may have been, af-
ter all, good starting-point in the pro-
cess of development. One can hardly
believe that the zone cluster of grapes"
which the burdened spies, returning
from Palestine, bore "between two of
them upon staff" was the result of
high scientific culture. In that climate,
and when the world was young, nature
| must have been more beneficent than
| now. 1t is certain that no such cluster
ever hung from the native vines of this
land, yet it is from our wild species,
whose fruit the Indians shared with the
birds and foxes (when not hanging SO
high as to be sour), that We have devel-
oped the delicious varieties of our out
door vineyards. For about two cen
turtles our forefathers kept on planting
vines imported from Europe, only to
meet with failure. Nature, that had SO
abundantly rewarded their efforts
abroad, quietly checkmated them here.
At last American fruit-growers took the
hint, and began developing our native
| species. Then nature smiled, and as
lure along this correct path of progress
| gave such Incentives as the Isabella, the
Catawba, and Concord. We are now be-
| wildered by almost as great choice of
varieties from native species as they have
| abroad, and as an aid to selection will
again give the verdict of some of the au-
| thorities.
The choice of Hon. Norman j. Colman,
Commissioner of Agriculture: EARLY
| Victor, Worden, Martha, Elvira, Gym
thana." This is for the region of Mis-
scur. For the latitude of New Jersey,
A. S. Ful!er's selection: Delaware,
Concord, Noore's Early, Antoinette
| (white), Augusta (white), Goethe Gam
| beD." Z S. Carman: "Moore's Early
| you cannot praise this too much. The
quality is merely that of the Concord;
but the vines are marvels of perfect
health, the punches large, the berries Of
the largest size. They ripen all at once,
and are fully ripe when the Concord be-
gins to color], Worden, Brighton, Vic
tora (white), Niagara (white), Ell Do
RADIO. This does not thrive everywhere,
but the grapes lipen early-September l,
or beforehand the quality is perfection
white l." Choice of p. J. Berckman, for
the latitude of Georgia: white grapes
Peter Wylie, Triumph, Maxatawny,
Seuppernong. Red grapes-Delaware,
Berckman' Brighton. B!ack-Concord,
Ives"