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ripening with that of Worden or preceding it a few days. 

 For an early variety, the fruit keeps well and in spite of thin 

 skin ships well. The vine thrives in all grape soils. Lucile 

 may be recommended where a hardy grape is desired and for 

 localities in which the season is short. J. A. Putnam, Fredonia, 

 New York, grew Lucile. Thie vine fruited first in 1890. It is 

 a seedling of Wyoming, which it resembles in fruit and vine 

 and surpasses in both. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, very productive. Canes long, light brown ; 

 nodes enlarged, flattened ; internodes short ; tendrils continuous, bifid 

 or trifid. Leaves large, firm ; upper surface light green, glossy, 

 smooth ; lower surface pale green, pubescent ; leaf with terminus acute ; 

 petiolar sinus shallow, narrow, sometimes closed and overlapping ; 

 basal sinus usually absent ; lateral sinus a notch when present ; teeth 

 shallow. Flowers self-fertile, open early ; stamens upright. 



Fruit early, keeps well. Clusters large, long, slender, cylindrical, 

 usually single-shouldered, very compact ; pedicel short, thick with 

 few. small, inconspicuous warts ; brush light brown. Berries large, 

 round, dark red ^^^tll thin bloom, persistent, firm; skin thin, tender, 

 astringent; flesh pale green, translucent, juicy, tough, stringy, foxy; 

 fair in quality. Seeds adherent, one to four, small, broad, short, 

 blunt, dark brown. 



LUTIE 



(Labrusca) 



Lutie (Plate XXIII) is chiefly valuable for its vine characters. 

 The vines are vigorous, hardy, healthy and fruitful, although 

 scarcely equaling Lucile in any of these characters. Pomologists 

 differ widely as to the merits of the fruit, some claiming high 

 quality fur it and others declaring that it is no better than a 

 wild Labrusca. The difference of opinion is due to a pecul- 

 iarity of the fruit ; if eaten fresh, the quality, while far from 

 being of the best, is not bad, but after being picked for several 

 days it develops so much foxiness of flavor and aroma that 

 it is scarcely edible. Lutie is a seedling found by L. C. 

 Chisholm, Spring Ilill, Tennessee. It was introduced ui 1885. 



