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Title: The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste
Year: 1846 (1840s)
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Subjects: Gardening
Publisher: (Albany, N.Y. : Luthur Tucker
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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hese claims have been justified. We have personally tasted the grape, and thedescription of quality is not exaggerated; the vines in our possession show a remarkablyvigorous growth, although not fruiting. In a score or more of other hands with longerexperience than our own, and in different parts of the country, the testimony comes backfrom prominent fruit-growers as follows : It is a hardy vine, a vigorous grower, with astrong leaf; the fruit ripens early, is very large and showy, an abundant bearer, fruit ofan attractive appearance, good quality, and possesses eminent characteristics fitting itwell as a valuable market variety. We saw the grape first two years ago at the Exhibition of the Lake Shore GrapeGrowers Association, and the uniformly favorable impression it then made upon all visitors,and also subsequently at the next Exhibition, in 1868, culminated in the award of theFirst Premium for the best six clusters of fruit, quality to rule. We are aware of the The Salem Grape. 139
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The Salem Grape. 4s 140 Ifoine Scenes. injudiciousness of indorsing any new grape for general cultivation throughout the country,but as long as the people are led to believe that the Concord is the only grape that willsucceed anywhere without fail, and still is far from perfect, so long will we welcomeevery new variety which will give us the same admirable characteristics of growth andproductiveness but with a better flavor. We consider the Salem a good approximationto the desired result, and one of the most valuable new grapes now before the public. Home Scenes. BY B. S. OLMSTEAD, RYE, N. Y. THE plan presented in this paper may not at firs^ appear quite appropriate to illus-trate one of a series entitled Home Scenes. Yet is it not ? Do not most ofus regard our parish church as a spot very near and dear to us ? Is it not an integralpart of our homes, one that we would be loath, very loath, to part with ? Do not some ofthe most heart-felt of home associations cluster around it ? The ba

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