VARIETIES OF GRAPES 351 



tough, free from jnilp with much wine-eolored pigment, astringent ; 

 flesh dark green, juicj', fine-grained, tough, solid, spicy, sour, vinous. 

 Seeds adherent, two, short, blunt, brownish. 



COLERAIN 



(Labrusca) 



This is one of the numerous white seedh'n :s of Concord and 

 one of the few with sufficient merit to be kept in cultivation. 

 The vine has the characteristic foliage and habit of growth of its 

 parent, but the fruit is earlier by a week, is of much higher 

 cjuality and lacks the foxiness of most Labruscas. The grapes 

 are sprightly and vinous, and neither seeds nor skin are as 

 objectionable as in the parent. The fruit hangs to the vine 

 and keeps well, but owing to tender pulp does not ship well. 

 The variety is unproductive in some localities. Colerain is 

 worthy a place in home vineyards. David Bundy, Colerain, 

 Ohio, grew this variety from seed of Concord planted in 1880. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, healthy, unproductive. Canes slender, 

 dark reddish-brown ; nodes flattened ; internodes short, bifid. Leaves 

 thick ; upper surface light green, dull, smooth ; lower surface bronze, 

 downy ; leaf not lobed, terminus acute ; petiolar sinus w4de ; basal and 

 lateral sinus verj- shallow when present ; teeth shallow. Flowers self- 

 fertile, opening in mid-season ; stamens upright. 



P>uit early. Clusters medium in size and length, slender, blunt, 

 tapering, irregular, strongly shouldered, compact ; pedicel slender, 

 smooth ; brush green. Berries round, light green, glossj' with thin 

 bloom, persistent ; skin unusually thin, tender, adherent, unpig- 

 mented, astringent ; flesh pale green, translucent, juicy, fine-grained, 

 tender, soft, vinous, sweet ; good. Seeds free, one to three, small, 

 broad, notched, short, plump, brown. 



Columbian Imperial 



(Labrusca, Vulpina) 



CoJiimhicui, J'lnnho 



Columbian Imperial is a Labrus('a-\'ulpina hybrid chiefly 

 remarkable for the great size of its reddish-black berries, al- 



