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Barry. — This is one of our best-flavored and longest-keeping 

 hybrid grapes, resembling in color, flavor and keeping quality its 

 European parent, Black Hamburg. Unfortunately it is not pro- 

 ductive and it was hoped that it might be made to yield more by 

 grafting on another stock. 



Brighton. — Brighton is one of the few Labrusca-Vinifera hy- 

 brids which have attained prominence in commercial vineyards. 

 The variety, however, has two most serious defects. It is self- 

 sterile and it rapidly deteriorates in quality after picking. There 

 was the possibility that working on another stock might influence 

 the latter quality somewhat. 



Brilliant. — Brilliant is a handsome, well-flavored, red grape, a 

 cross between Lindley and Delaware, with such excellent keeping 

 and shipping qualities that it might be groA\Ti with great profit 

 in New York were it not for three faults — the bunches are vari- 

 able in size and ripen unevenly, and in some soils the vines lack 

 in productiveness. It was hoped that grafting on another stock 

 might at least mitigate these faults somewhat. 



Camjjhell Early. — At its best Campbell Early is unsurpassed 

 in bunch, berry and vine by any American grape. But in most 

 localities the variety falls far short of the perfection just indicated 

 because it is adapted to but few soils and must have particular 

 climatic and moisture conditions. Grafting on some other stock 

 may lessen or do away with these weaknesses. 



Catawba. — Catawba thrives in a great variety of soils and 

 under various moisture and climatic conditions. It is the standard 

 red grape of the markets of eastern America, more largely grown 

 than any other red sort, but its cultivation could be still further 

 extended in I^ew York were it not for the fact that it ripens a 

 week too late to be certain except in favored localities. In Europe 

 and California, some varieties ripen a week or more earlier if 

 grown on other than their own roots — hence, the trial of Catawba 

 in this experiment. 



Concord. — The Concord, kno^\Ti*bv all, is the dominant type of 

 our native grapes, taking first place in American viticulture be- 

 cause of the elasticity of its constitution whereby it adapts itself 



