VARIETIES OF GRAPES 443 



for northern regions, being very common in the markets as 

 late as January. The original vine was a chance seedling in 

 the garden of William E. Greene, Vergennes, Vermont, in 1874. 



Vine variable in \igor, doubtfully hardy, productive, healthy. 

 Canes long, dark brown ; nodes enlarged, strongly flattened ; tendrils 

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

 light green, glossy, rugose; lower surface pale green, very pubescent; 

 leaf usually not lobed with terminus broadly acute ; petiolar sinus wide ; 

 teeth shallow. Flowers semi-sterile, mid-season ; stamens ui)right. 



Fruit late, keeps and ships well. Clusters of medium size, broad, 

 cylindrical, sometimes single-shouldered, loose ; pedicel with numerous 

 small warts; brush slender, short, pale green. Berries large, oval, 

 light and dark red with thin bloom, persistent ; skin thick, tough, 

 adherent, astringent; flesh pale green, juicy, fine-grained, somewhat 

 stringy, tender, vinous ; good to very good. Seeds free, one to five, 

 blunt, brown. 



Walter 



(Vinifera, Labrusca, Bourquiniana) 



Were it not almost impossible to grow healthy vines of Walter, 

 the variety would rank high among American grapes. But 

 stunted by fungi which attack leaves, young wood and fruit, it 

 is possible only in exceptionally favorable seasons satisfactorily 

 to produce crops of this variety. Besides susceptibility to 

 diseases, the vines are fastidious to soils, everywhere variable in 

 growth and are injured in cold winters. As if to atone for the 

 faults of the vine, the fruit of Walter is almost perfect, lacking 

 only in size of bunch and berry. The bunch and berry resemble 

 those of Delaware, but the fruit is not as high in quality as that 

 of its parents. Walter is adapted to conditions under which 

 Delaware thrives. A. J. Cay wood, ^lodena, New York, grew 

 this variety about 1850 from seed of Delaware pollinated by 

 Diana. 



Vine vigorous. Canes medium in Icngtli and size, dark reddish- 

 brown with thin bloom ; nodes enlarged, flattened ; tendrils intermit- 

 tent, bifid. Leaves thick ; upper surface dark green, glossy, smooth ; 



