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Vine vigorous and hardy, producing average to good crops, often subject to mildew. 

 Canes long, numerous, thick, rather light brown ; nodes slightly enlarged, usually flattened ; 

 intemodes long to medium; diaphragm thick; pith nearly large; shoots glabrous, slightly 

 pubescent; tendrils continuous, long, bifid. 



Leaf-buds of average size, short, stout, conical to pointed, sometimes slightly com- 

 pressed, open moderately early. Young leaves lightly tinged with rose-carmine on lower 

 surface, strongly tinged along margin of upper surface. Leaves medium to large, thick; 

 upper surface dark green, dull, moderately smooth; lower surface pale green, slightly 

 pubescent; veins not distinct; lobes three when present, terminal lobe acute to acumi- 

 nate; petiolar sinus nearl}- intermediate in depth and width; lateral sinus shallow to 

 medium in depth and width; teeth of average depth, narrow. Flowers open somewhat 

 late, sometimes on plan of six, sterile; stamens reflexed. 



Fruit ripens somewhat unevenly about mid-season, keeps fairly well for a short time 

 but deteriorates rapidly after ripening. Clusters very large to medium, usually long, 

 broadish, tapering, often heavily shouldered, loose to compact; peduncle quite long; 

 pedicel of average length, somewhat thick, covered with few indistinct warts, broad at 

 point of attachment to berry; brush pale green with brown tinge, thick, short. Berries 

 irregular, medium to rather large in size, roundish to slightly oval, light and dark red, 

 somewhat glossy, covered with dark lilac bloom, handsome, persistent, not firm. Skin 

 thickish, very tender, adheres considerably to the pulp, contains no pigment, astringent. 

 Flesh greenish, rather transparent, tender, slightly stringy, melting, aromatic, vinous, 

 sweet or agreeably tart to center of berry, very good in quality. Seeds separate easily, 

 number one to five, average three or four, above mean size, rather broad and sharply 

 pointed, light brown with yellow tinge ; raphe shows as a narrow obscure groove ; chalaza 

 large, above center, irregularly circular, distinct. 



BRILLUNT. 



(Labrusca, Vinifera, Bourquiniana.) 



I. An. Hort., 1889:101. 2. Rural N. Y., 49:602. 1890. fig. 3. Atn. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1891:151, 

 159. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1891:32. 5. Kan. Sta. Bid., 28:162. 1891. 6. III. Sta. Bui, 28:259. 

 1893. 7. iV. Y. Sta. All. Rpt., 12:618. 1893. 8. Busk. Cat., 1894:96. fig. 9. Husmann, 1895:124. 

 10. Can. Hort., 18:3, 4, 58. 1895. fig. II. Ga. Sta. Bui, 28:290. 1895. 12. Tcnn. Sta. Bui, Vol. 

 9:170, 171, fig., 195. 1896. 13. Kan. Sta. BmZ., 73:183. 1897. 14. Rural N. K., 58:22. 1899. 15. 

 Mo .Sta. Bui, 46:43, 48. 1899. 16. .Y. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 18:396. 1899. 17. Tex. Sta. Bui, 56:275. 

 1900. 



In Brilliant, one of Munson's grapes, from Lindley crossed with Dela- 

 ware, we have a fine red grape in which the characters of the two parents 

 are so nearly equally combined that it cannot be said which it most resem- 

 bles. In cluster and size of berry, Brilliant resembles Lindley; in color 

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