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Aestivalis or Bourquiniana blood. This variety is unknown in New York 

 and of its origin and history there is no information. 



Vine a rampant grower, hardy, medium to productive, somewhat subject to attacks 

 of leaf-hoppers. Canes long, numerous, rather thick, dark reddish-brown, covered with 

 a slight amount of bloom; tendrils continuous, bifid. Foliage very healthy; leaves 

 unusually large, intermediate in thickness, dark green with well defined ribs showing 

 through the thin ptibescence of the under surface. Flowers sterile, open very early; 

 stamens reflexed. 



Fruit ripens late, and appears to keep well. Clusters do not always fill well, small 

 to melium, rather short and slender, irregularly tapering, often with a medium-sized 

 single shoulder, variable in compactness. Berries small to medium, roundish to slightly 

 flattened, black, rather glossy, covered with blue bloom, persistent, firm. Skin rather 

 tough, thinnish and inclined to crack, adheres slightly to the pulp, contains an unusu- 

 ally large amount of dark purplish-red pigment. Flesh reddish-green, moderately juicy, 

 rather tender and soft, fine-grained, very slightly aromatic, spicy, neither so sprightly 

 nor so high-flavored as other varieties of the same season, not good enough in flavor 

 and quality in general for dessert purposes. Seeds separate rather easily from the 

 pulp, intermediate in size and length, medium to above in width, notched, nearly sharp- 

 pointed, dark brown; raphe shows as a very small cord; chalaza large, at center or 

 slightly above, irregularly oval, distinct. 



CLINTON. 



(Riparia, Labrusca.) 



I. Adluni, 1823:140. 2. lb., 1828:176. 3. Prince, 1830:179. 4. Rafinesque, 1830:11. 5. 

 N. y. Ag. Soc. Rpt., 1841:388. 6. Horticulturist. 2:121, 341. 1847. 7. //'., 8:120. 1S53. pg. 8 

 Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt.. 1860:82. 9. .-l;;i. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1862:00. 10. Gar. Mon., 5:335. 1863 

 II. Strong, 1866:332. 12. Husmann, 1866:50, 102. 13. Fuller, 1867:219. 14. U. S. D. A. Rpt. 

 1869:85. fig. 15. Bush. Cat., 1883:82. 16. Can. Hort., 11:43- iSSS. 17. Bush. Cat., 1894:103 

 104. fg. 18. Ev. Nat. Fruits, 1898:75. 19. A'. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 17:528, 540, 544, 54S, 554, 559. 

 1898. 20. Rural X. Y., 59:7, 306. 1900. 



WoRTHiNGTON (i, 2, 3, 4). Wortliington (15, 17). 



Clinton is now but little grown, its place having been taken by better 

 varieties of its t^'pe. It has historical interest if not intrinsic value, 

 for it played an important part in the beginning of American viticulture. 

 Most viticulturists have ascribed to Clinton the distinction of being the 

 first cultivated "variety of Vitis riparia," but without question this honor 

 belongs to the Worthington of Adlum and Prince, with a strong probability 

 that Clinton may be Worthington renamed. But it v,'as as Clinton 

 that Vitis riparia was disseminated for general culture and it is the name 



