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to succeed better than any otlier Concord sccdlin^^ Lady 

 Washington is another of J. H. Ricketts' fine seedlings, this 

 variety having come from seed of Concord fertilized by Allen's 

 Hybrid. It was introduced in 1878. 



Vine vigorous, productive. Canes long, few, thick, dark brown ; 

 nodes gi*eatly enlarged, variable in shape ; internodes long ; tendrils 

 continuous, long, bifid or trifid. Leaves large, thick ; upper surface 

 dark green, older leaves strongly rugose, glossy ; lower surface pale 

 green, pubescent ; leaf entire with terminal acute ; petiolar sinus deep, 

 narrow, frequently closed and overlapping ; basal sinus usually want- 

 ing ; lateral sinus shallow ; teeth shallow, narrow. Flowers self- 

 fertile, open in mid-season ; stamens upright. 



Fruit late mid-season, keeps and ships well. Clusters large, broad, 

 irregularly cylindrical, single-shouldered, frequently double-shouldered, 

 loose ; pedicel short with numerous conspicuous warts ; brush wevy 

 short, greenish. Berries variable in size, round-oblate, yellow-amber, 

 glossy \vath thin bloom, persistent ; skin thin, tender, adherent ; flesh 

 pale green, transparent, juicy and tender, stringy, aromatic, sweet ; 

 very good. Seeds free, one to four, broad, brown. 



Lenoir 



(Bourquiniana) 



Alabama, Black EI Paso, Black July, Black Spanish, Blue 

 French, Burgundy, Cigar Box Grape, Devereaux, Jack, 

 Jacques, July Sherry, Longworth's Ohio, MacCandless, Ohio, 

 Springstein, Warren 



Lenoir is a tender southern grape which has been used largely 

 in France and California as a resistant stock and a direct 

 j)roducer. The fruit is highly valued for its dark red wine and 

 is very good for table use. The vine is very resistant to phyl- 

 loxera and withstands drouth well. The origin of Lenoir is 

 iniknown. It was in cultivation in the South as long ago as 

 the early ])art of the last century. Nicholas Herbemont 

 states in 1S'J9 that its name was given from a man named 

 Lenoir who cultivated it near Stateburg, South Carolina. 

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