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feld, Golden Grain, Hartford, Highland, Hopican, Illinois City, Isabella, 

 Isabella Seedling, lona, Jefferson, Jessica, Lady, Leader, Lindmar, Little 

 Blue, Mills, Missouri, Reissling, Olita, Paradox, Paragon, Perkins, Pock- 

 lington*, Rockwood, Rommel, Rutland, Standard, Triumph, Ulster, Ver- 

 gennes, Victoria, Wheaton, Worden. 



It appears from these investigations that the grapes named in classes 

 I and II can set fruit satisfactorily of themselves and may safely be 

 planted alone. 



In the following classes are named those varietes which, when self-fer- 

 tilized, produced imperfect and unsatisfactory clusters or utterly failed 

 to set fruit. If any of these are set at all they should be mingled with 

 other kinds in order that their blossoms may be properly fertilized. 

 Possibly, as stated before, some of these varieties may differ under 

 different circumstances, as to their ability to set fruit, but I have not 

 known any of them to do so. 



In class III are named those grapes which produced some fruit, but 

 the clusters were likely to be imperfectly filled and unmarketable. 

 Some of them, like Eumelan, rarely set any fruit, while others set 

 moderately compact clusters, and all gradations were found between 

 these tw^o extremes. This class includes Adirondack, Alexander 

 Winter, Amber Queen, Beagle, Canada, Canonicus, Daisy, Dr. Collier, 

 Dracut Amber, Duchess, Early .Market, Eumelan, Geneva, Gold Dust, 

 Nectar, Noah, Northern Muscadine, Norwood, Perkins, and Woodruff. 



Class IV contains those varieties that either set no fruit or formed 

 abortive berries which never developed into perfect fruit: Aledo, 

 Amber, America, Aminia, Barry, Black Eagle, Blanco, Brighton, Burnet, 

 Clevener, Creveling, Denison, Dr. Hexamer, Eatonf, Eldorado, Elvibach, 

 Essex, Faith, Gaertner, Grein's Golden, Hayes, Herbert, Hercules, Jewel. 

 Juno, Lindley, Marion, Massasoit, Maxatawney, Merrimack, Monteflore 

 Norwood, Red Bird, Red Eagle, Requa, Rogers^ No. 5, Roscoe, Rustler, 

 Salem, White Jewel, Wilder. 



In the early history of grape culture in the United States, east of the 

 Rocky mountains, numerous attempts were made to grow European 

 varieties, but without success. Among the chief causes of failure, as we 

 now know them, were their susceptibility to the attacks of rot and 

 mildew, and, worst of all, to the attacks of a native insect known as 

 phylloxera. 



Baffled in their attempts to secure vineyards of such grapes as were 

 successfully grown in Europe, the American fruitgrowers turned their 

 attention to the native wild vines. Improved varieties of these were 

 gradually introduced into cultivation, and as a result grape-growing 

 has become a permanent and important industry in many sections of 

 the United^ States, where all previous attempts to establish vineyards of 

 European varieties had failed. 



About forty years ago great interest was aroused over the possible 

 rapid improvement of American grapes by the production of hybrids 

 between the native species and the choice European kinds. At that time 

 the remarkable series of hybrids produced by Mr. E. S. Rogers of Salem. 

 Mass., known as the Rogers Hybrids, began to attract attention. Many 



*This variety may belonK in class I. 



+ Further testing may show that this belongs in another class. 



