An article in the _Horticulturist_[180] for 1857 states that the Devereaux was found in the woods over forty years before that date by Samuel M. Devereaux, who lived near Sparta, Georgia. It has been considerably confused with varieties which resemble it. The name Lincoln, in particular, is a questionable synonym which Dr. Curtis of Hillsboro, North Carolina, in a letter to the _Gardener's Monthly_ for 1860,[181] states was found near the junction of the South Fork and Catawba Rivers by Dr. William McLean. It was known locally under the names of McLean and Hart. Later it was sent to Longworth, who gave it the name Lincoln. The descriptions of this variety from various sources are conflicting. That given below is copied from the _Bushberg Catalogue_.[182] "Bunch long, loose, slightly shouldered; berry black, below medium, round; skin fine, tender; flesh meaty, juicy without pulp, and vinous; quality best. Vine a strong grower, and, when free from mildew, moderately productive; wood long-jointed, purplish brown at first, of deeper purplish red when ripe; with bi-forked, intermittent tendrils--these, as also the leaf stalk, are tinged on their base with a purplish brown hue, like the young canes; the buds are covered with a russet down, unfolding with that rosy complexion peculiar to the young, downy leaves of most Aestivalis. The developed foliage is of medium size, entire (not lobed), considerably wrinkled, turgid, with somewhat abundant hair tufts on the lower veins." DIAMOND. (Labrusca, Vinifera.) =1.= _Gar. Mon._, =26=:336. 1884. =2.= _Ib._, =28=:333. 1886. =3.= _Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1887-8=:85. =4.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1889=:328. =5.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =9=:332. 1890. =6.= _Kan. Sta. Bul._, =28=:161. 1891. =7.= _Rural N. Y._, =50=:691, 787. 1891. =8.= _Kan. Sta. Bul._, =44=:118, 127. 1893. =9.= _Rural N. Y._, =53=:616, 645, _fig._, 646. 1894. =10.= _Gar. and For._, =8=:96, 377, 487. 1895. =11.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =15=:432, 433. 1896. =12.= _Tenn. Sta. Bul._, Vol. =9=:175, 176. 1896. _fig._ =13.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1897=:19. =14.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:529, 538, 540, 543, 544, 547, 549, 554. 1898. =15.= _Va. Sta. Bul._, =94=:139. 1898. =16.= _Mo. Sta. Bul._, =46=:38, 44, 45, 50. 1899. =17.= _Can. Hort._, =25=:125, 190. 1902. _fig._ DIAMOND, _Moore_ (13). MOORE'S DIAMOND (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9.) _Moore's Diamond_ (15, 17). [Illustration: DIAMOND]