340 MANUAL OF AMERICAN GRAPE-GROWING 



ber of second-crop bunches which it produces on the laterals. 

 The following description is compiled : 



Vine very vigorous, productive ; canes spreading, few. Leaves me- 

 dium to small, very deeply five-lobed ; the younger leaves truncate at 

 base, giving them a semi-circular outline, with long, sharp teeth alter- 

 nating with very small ones ; glabrous, or nearly so, on both sides. 

 Bunches very large, short, shouldered, compact and rigid ; berries very 

 large, round, often misshapen from compression ; dull purple, lacking 

 color in the center of the bunch; flesh firm, crisp, neutral in flavor, 

 lacking in richness ; quality rather low. Season late, keeping and 

 shipping well. 



Brighton 



(Labrusca, Vinifera) 



Brighton (Plate VIII) is one of the few Labrusca-Vinifera 

 hybrids which have attained prominence in commercial vine- 

 yards. It ranks as one of the leading amateur grapes in east- 

 ern America and is among the ten or twelve chief commercial 

 sorts of this region. Its good points are : for the fruit, high 

 quality ; for the vine, vigorous growth, productiveness, adapta- 

 bility to various soils and ability to withstand fungi. Brighton 

 has two serious defects which keep it from taking higher rank 

 as a commercial variety : it deteriorates in quality very quickly 

 after maturity, so that it cannot be kept for more than a few 

 days at its best, hence cannot well be shipped to distant 

 markets ; and it is self-sterile to a more marked degree than 

 any other commonly-grown grape. Brighton is a seedling of 

 Diana Hamburg polUnated by Concord, raised by Jacob 

 ]\Ioore, Brighton, New York. The original vine fruited first 

 in 1870. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, productive, subject to mildew. Canes long, 

 numerous, light })rown ; nodes enlarged, usually flattened ; internodes 

 long; tendrils continuous, long, bifid. Leaves large, thick; upper 

 surface dark green, dull, smooth ; lower surface pale green, pubescent ; 

 lobes three when present, terminal one acute; petiolar sinus inter- 



