GRAPES. 



-THE GRAPES RECOMMENDED BY THE STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



BY T. T. LTOIT, 



Tlie fourteen grapes recommended by the Society are as follows : 



Idarket — Hariford Prolific, Eumelan, Delaware, Israeila, Concord, lotia, Ives' Seedling, 



Family. — Hartford Prolific, Eumelan, Delaware, Concoid, Diana. Agawam. 



Amateur. — Adirondac, Crevelling, Croton, Eumelan, Delaware, Israeila, lona, Allen's 

 Hybrid, Rebecca, Diana. 



Mr. Ijyon described these grapes in a valuable paper read at Battle Creek. The original 

 "Copy was sent to the Michigan Farmer for publication, and there was destroyed by the 

 ■disastrous fire which occcurred in April, 1873. A portion, however, had been published, 

 and this we preserve. — [Secretary. 



It has been tlionght important to spread upon tlie records of the Society a 

 history and description of the more imoortant of the fruits recommended for 

 general cnltivation, as the most ready means of bringing the facilities for a 

 ready identification, and a careful study of their peculiar qualities, within the 

 reach of the people of our State. In so doing it devolves upon me to devote 

 my attention to the lists of grapes, recommended by the standing committee 

 on lists of fruits. In the endeavor to bring the history of these fruits before 

 you, it has seemed to me the most convenient and natural to follow the history 

 of each in the order of their introduction to the public as nearly as possible. 



THE DIANA GKAPE 



originated at Milton, near Boston, Mass., from seed of Catawba, planted by 

 Mrs. Diana Crehore, in the autumn of 1831 or 1832. The plant (having been 

 once removed) grew very slowly, producing its first fruit in 1838. In the 

 ■spring of 1843 it was pruned for the first time ; and in the succeeding autumn 

 Mrs. Crehore exhibited the fruit for the first time, at the rooms of the Mas- 

 • sachusetts Horticultural Society, for the purpose of learning luhether it loas a 

 new variety or not. It was again exhibited in the year 1844, and the com- 

 mittee of the Society characterized it as '' undoubtedly a more valuable variety 

 than any other we possess," as a crop may be relied on for a certainty ; and, in 

 ■compliment to the originator, named it the Diana grape. 



The earliest engraving of this grape at its new England home, will be found 

 in Hovey's Maga^;ine of Horticulture, Volume XVI. (1850), at page 33, 

 appendi'd to which is the following description by the editor: 



" Vi?ie, vigorous, making rather slender wood when young ; but growing more 

 rapidly after it has attained age. Wood, light brown, rather long jointed. 

 Xeaves, similar to the Catawba, without lobes. Bunch, medium size, about 



