This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V28", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
After another year, we feel that this grape will yet have a wild run in the North. It is as hardy and as free a grower as the Clinton, which was one of its parents; while the quality is very little below Delaware. Our friend Berckmans was fortunate in having so fine a fruit named in his honor. We regard it as one of the best of all the late Dr. Wylie's hybrids. It is a great misfortune that the good work a man does in pomology, not only brings him in little recompense, but even reputation does not come often till he is gone.
 
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