Identifier: americangrapegro00husm (find matches)
Title: American grape growing and wine making
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Husmann, George, 1827-1902
Subjects: Viticulture Wine and wine making
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Company
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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t, but made a goodgrowth of wood nevertheless. I think its present cropwould come to 25 lbs. at least. The bunches were allperfect, though backward in ripening. It is a seedling ofIsabella; bunch medium, very compact, occasionallyshouldered; berry medium, slightly oblong, resemblingRebecca very closely, and about the same quality, green-ish-white ; skin tough and firm, enabling it to carry tomarket in good condition ; sweet and good, though not ofhigh character. Mr. Prentiss has quite a number ofvines of it in bearing, in different parts of the vineyard,all heavily loaded. Foliage also resembles Rebecca, but islarger, not so deeply lobed, thicker, and more leathery.He ships to New York markets, and readily obtains 16cents per pound for all he can send of the Prentiss. Theparticular location near the lake may have somethingto do with this eminent success, but the grajDC certainlydeserves trial as a market grape in other sections. Ithink it lacks the sprightliness of a good luine grape.
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AND WINE MAKING. 51 Mr. Pentiss has also two other seedlings, which I thinkhighly promising, not yet named, of which I made thefollowing notes : No. 1.—Bunch very compact, seldom shouldered, me-dium ; berry medium, round, black, with blue bloom,very sweet, pulp tender, buttery, taste pure, withoutfoxiness, with considerable coloring matter in its skin.Eipens fully as early as Concord; promising for red wine;vine a good grower, healthy, and productive; fruitedabout 5 years; never rotted. No. 2.—Bunch long, loose, not shouldered ; berryround, a trifle larger than Catawba, dark red, pulptender, vinous, fine flavor, better than Catawba, with avery pleasant mingling of acid and sweet; seems to behealthy and productive ; fruited for the first time. Mr. Ricketts seedlings : Foremost among these, in our estimation, is the Lady Washington, which is a magnificent grape, andits robust growth and large, leathery leaves, give promiseof health elsewhere as well as in its native locality. Theori

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