1 86 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



surface making the prevailing color a light rose-carmine. Leaves of average size, medium 

 to thick; upper surface dark green, slightly glossy, smooth to rugose; lower surface pale 

 grayish-green, somewhat pubescent ; veins not distinct ; lobes five in number, tenninal 

 lobe acute; petiolar sinus deep to narrow, often closed and overlapping; basal sinus 

 verv wide and deep; lateral sinus wide at bottom narrowing towards top, deep; teeth 

 intermediate in depth and width. Flowers open in mid-season or later, fullv self-sterile; 

 stamens reflexed. 



Fruit ripens in mid-season, keeps well if picked before overripe. Clusters of large 

 to average size, rather long, tapering, varying from single- to double-shouldered, loose 

 to compact; peduncle longish, rather thick; pedicel long to medium, somewhat slender, 

 covered with very few warts, enlarged at point of attachment to fruit; brush short, pale 

 green. Berries variable in size averaging large, slightly oval, black, glossy, covered with 

 a moderate amount of blue bloom, do not shatter, somewhat soft. Skin thin, rather 

 tender, adheres strongly to pulp, with slight amounl; of wine-colored pigment, not astrin- 

 gent. Flesh pale green, translucent, somewhat tender, vinous, not foxy, sweet at skin 

 to agreeably tart at center, quality good. Seeds separate easily, one to four, average 

 two or three, rather large and broad, nearly long. 



BLACK HAMBURG. 



(Vinifera.) 



I. Speechly, 1791:11,170. 2. x^ondon Hort. Soc. Cat., 1830:75. 3. Hoare. 1840:142. 4. Mag. 

 llort., 9:245. 1843. 5. lb., 13:4,^- '■"^47- 6. -4;;i. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1852:54. (For culture under 

 glass.) 7. Horticulturist, 15:125. iSoo. 8. Mag. Hart., 26:110. i860. 9. Can. Hort., 11:59. 1888. 



Admiral (4). Black Gibraltcr (4). Black Hamburgh (2). Black Portugal of some (4). Black 

 Teneriffe (4). Blue Trollinger (4). Bocksaugen (4). Bommerer (4). Brown Hamburgh (4). 

 Dutch Hamburgh (4). Fleish Traube (4). Frakenthalcr (4). Frankcndale (4). Frankcnthaler 

 gros noir (4). Gelbholzigcr Trollinger (4). Gibraltcr (4). Hampton Court Vine (4, 8). Hudler (4). 

 Languedoc (4). Lugiana nera (4'). Malvasier of some (4). Mohrendutte (4). Pale Wooded Trol- 

 linger (4). Purple Hambttrgh (4). Red Hamburgh (4, of some 2). Richmond Villa Hamburgh (8). 

 Salisbury Violet (4). Schtvarzeblauer Trollinger (4). Schwarzcr Gutedel of some (4). Schwarzwcl- 

 scher (4). Trailer (4). Trollinger (4). Valentines (4). Victoria (4). Warner's (2, 4). Warner's 

 Black Hamburgh (2). Warjter's Black Hamburgh (4). Warner's Hamburgh (8). Weisshohiger 

 Trollinger (4). Welscher (4). 



Black Hamburg is a variety of Vitis vinifera, impossible to grow out 

 of doors in eastern America, but illustrated and described here because it 

 is one of the parents of many hybrids with American species and because 

 it represents, in fruit characters at least, about all that is desirable in a good 

 grape. Since it is a standard of excellence which American breeders of 

 table grapes liave long sought to attain, we may name its points of superi- 

 ority over the table grapes now grown in our vineyards. ist. Bunch and 



