THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 20I 



CANANDAIGUA. 



(Labrusca, Vinifera.) 



Canandaigua has not been generally distributed and would not be 

 mentioned here were it not for its exceptional keeping qualities. To test 

 the keeping qualities of grapes in common storage, 265 varieties were put 

 in the fruit house at this Station in the fall of 1907. The test ended April 

 16, 1908, when it was found that Canandaigua was in the best condition 

 of all varieties. Its quality is very good at picking time but seems, if any- 

 thing, to improve in storage, and it was as good at the end of the test as 

 at the beginning. Its vine characters are those of Labrusca- Vinifera 

 hybrids and such, as the variety grows on the Station grounds, as make it 

 the equal of the average cultivated hybrid of these two species. The char- 

 acters of the fruit, too, show plainly an admixture of Vinifera and Labrusca 

 so combined as to make the grapes very similar to the best of such hybrids. 

 The variety is quite worthy of trial. 



Canandaigua is a chance seedling found by E. L. Van Wormer of 

 Canandaigua, New York, growing among wild grapes. Its high quality 

 and handsome appearance attracted his attention and the vine was put 

 under cultivation, after which its long-keeping qualities were discovered. 

 Vines were sent to this Station for testing in 1897. All of its characters 

 indicate that it is a hybrid between Labrusca and Vinifera. 



Vine vigorous, doubtfully hardy, medium to productive. Tendrils semi-continu- 

 ous to semi-intermittent, bifid, dehisce early. Leaves large to medium, thin. Flowers 

 sterile or sometimes partly fertile, open in mid-season; stamens refiexed. Fruit ripens 

 after mid-season, keeps unusually well. Clusters variable in size, usually heavily single- 

 shouldered, loose to medium. Berries large to medium, slightly oval to roundish, black, 

 covered with a fair amount of blue bloom, persistent. Flesh firm, sweet and rich, good 

 in quality, improving as the season advances. Seeds often long, with enlarged neck; 

 raphe shows as a partially obscured cord in a medium deep groove ; chalaza above 

 center, distinctly pear-shaped. 



CAPTAIN. 



(Lincecumii, Rupestris, Labrusca, Vinifera.) 



I. Rural N. Y., 60:637. iQoi- 2. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1904:306. 3. Mnnsoii Cat., 1906-7:16. 



Captain has not made a good showing in the Station vineyard and we 

 have no reports of it from other parts of the State. The clusters are large 



