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skill, ainl will bear handling and shipping well. It is also the best keeper of 

 any other of its family that I have tested. It has many of the qualities of a 

 proritable market grape, and it should prove valuable wherever it can be 

 successfully grown. 



The Freutiss is another white grape prominently before the public. I 

 fruited it the past season upon a grafted vine which was carefully protected 

 during the previous winter. It bore a few handsome, medium-sized clusters, 

 pl(>a.sant flavored and not foxy; ripening very nearly with the Concord. The 

 growtii and appearance of the vine seems much like that of the Kebecca, 

 though of apparently stronger growth and greater productiveness. The foli- 

 age shows some disposition to mildew, and the wood did not ripen well the 

 past season. Much of it was soft and immature, and appears as though it 

 would not endure severe winters. Further experience in this respect is de- 

 sirable, for upon this point of hardiness in winter will its value depend. If it 

 proves to be no hardier than the Rebecca, it ought not to be recommended, 

 though for specially favored localities or the garden of the amateur it may 

 be useful. 



Antoinette, one of the late Mr. Miners white seedlings from the Concord, 

 appears promising. The vine makes a remarkably vigorous and healthy 

 growth — stronger even than the Worden or Concord, bearing abundantly 

 large and handsome clusters of delicate yellow color, and in flavor much like 

 the Pocklington, but ripening some days earh^er. It is a little foxy in odor, 

 but much the same as all the white Concord seedlings, wdiich have a strong 

 family resemblance. I have seen several notices of this grape both favorable 

 and unfavorable, but after fruiting it for three years my impressions are in 

 it.s favor as a very strong-growing, productive, hardy and healthy variety, of 

 good market quality and certainly worthy of trial. 



The Lady Washington I found later in ripening than I expected, and it 

 sulTered from rot. The season seemed unfavorable for it. It ripened a week 

 or more after the Concord. The vine :'s one of the most vigorous in my 

 whole collection and the foliage has been remarkably healthy. In quality I 

 should class it as rather negative, neither positively bad nor very good. 



Eldorado is a twin sister of the Lady Washington and ])lcascd me much 

 better both as to quality and time of ripening. The vine is very vigorous, 

 and iia.s been, up to this time, entirely healthy. It fruited for me the first 

 time the past season. Rijiens as early as the Delaware, and though not quite 

 JUS large as the Lady Washington, is much better in quality. The clusters, 

 although of medium .size, are handsome; color light yellow, or amber; flavor 

 pure and delicate, entirely free from foxiness, and very good, if not best in 

 quality. As to jiroductivencss and general character, in that j-espect, I can 

 not say, having fruited it but once upon a young vine. I have, however, seen 

 it very favorably noticed by our Eastern friends, who have fruited it for a 

 longer period. 



Jeller.son I still regard as one of the most promising for value among the 

 new grapes. I fruited it moderately the past unfavorable season and found 



