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Isabella (grape)

The Isabella grape is a cultivar derived from the grape species Vitis labrusca or 'fox grape' which is used for table, juice and wine production.

Appearance and use

The skin of Isabella when ripened is a dark purple, almost black with a tender green-yellow flesh. It has large well formed fruit clusters with thick bloom. It is a slip skin variety, meaning that the skin separates easily from the fruit. The grapes are used to make wine, most notably Uhudler and Fragolino. The Isabella being of the genus Vitis x Labruscana imparts a "foxiness" to the wine and because of this is thought to be objectionable, therefore it is not seen as a grape capable of making fine wines. For the table the flavour is good though with the astringent tough skin and "foxy" aroma is objectionable for some tastes.

The deciduous vine is very easy to propagate. When the vine is bare of leaves in winter, it is good to prune the vine back by about one-third. Save the branches that are 15 cm long and pencil-thick. Cut straight across at the proximal end (nearest the root), and oblique at the distal end. Put a bundle of about 10 cuttings in potting mix, the flat ends down, and keep reasonable moist throughout winter. They will sprout leaves and roots in spring. Divide and plant out.

Isabella (1824 ship)

The Isabella was a ship that disappeared off the coast of Australia in 1824.

The Isabella was anchored off the bar at Port Macquarie, New South Wales when the pilot boarded the ship and ordered his crew to return at 2 pm to pick him up after crossing the bar. At 2 pm his crew returned but instead of taking the pilot on board, boarded the ship, seized the crew and headed out to sea with the ship. About four miles (6 km) off shore, the crew and pilot were cast adrift.

The Isabella was never heard from again and assumed to have foundered. The ship was owned by Richard Kelly, who had purchased it on favourable terms as compensation for the loss of his schooner, Black Jack, through the negligence of the pilot at Port Macquarie in 1823. Both Isabella and Black Jack had been on government service at the time of their loss.

Richard Kelly received compensation from Governor Darling some 1,920 acres (7.8 km²) of land in the Parish of Scoone, Brisbane in 1833. This occurred despite a previous order that because Richard Kelly had been caught bribing a storekeeper in 1822, he was never to receive any indulgence in the power of the Crown...