THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 215 



worthy, in the garden of a Mr. Peebles above Waterford on the Hudson. 

 The name Chnton was given by Langworthy, who introduced it to the 

 trade around Rochester about 1835. There were other cultivated varieties 

 growing in the Peebles garden and the Clinton was not supposed to be a 

 seedling. Although this account of the origin of the Clinton was published 

 in the then most popular horticultural publication in the United States, 

 there were no denials nor corrections made in any of the succeeding num- 

 bers. In 1863 there appeared in the Elmira Advertiser an account of the 

 origin of this variety in which it was stated that the seed from which this 

 variety had sprung was planted by Hugh White, then a member of Con- 

 gress, in his father's garden in Whitesboro, in 1819. Two years later, so 

 the story runs, when he was a junior in Hamilton College, Clinton, New 

 York, White transplanted the vine east of the house of Dr. Noyes, with 

 whom he then boarded. There were no denials of this report, probably 

 on account of the fact that the introducer at Rochester was dead ; and the 

 account and Whitesboro as the place of origin were later generally accepted 

 by horticultural writers. In 1852 the Ohio Pomological Society determined 

 that the Worthington and the Clinton grapes were identical. Later 

 this was generally accepted by viticulturists as being correct. The Worth- 

 ington is an old sort known to Adlum and Prince, and was said by the latter 

 to have originated in the vicinity of Annapolis, Maryland. 



Clinton was placed on the grape list of the American Pomological 

 Society fruit catalog in 1862, where it has since been retained. 



Clinton is usually considered a Riparia, as most of the botanical 

 characters indicate this species. However, occasional canes with con- 

 tinuous tendrils are characteristic of Labrusca. 



Vine a rank grower, healthy, hardy, productive. Canes long, numerous, slender 

 to medium, brown to reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, slightly flattened; internodes 

 of average length; diaphragm thick to medium; pith large; shoots smooth; tendrils 

 usually intermittent but sometimes continuous, bifid. 



Leaf-buds rather large and short, thick, obtuse to conical, open early. Young 

 leaves very faintly tinged with carmine on lower side only. Leaves hang until very 

 late in the season, medium to small, thin; upper surface dark green, smooth; lower 

 surface pale green, not pubescent; veins indistinct; petiolar sinus deep, medium to 

 narrow, often urn-shaped; basal and lateral sinuses shallow to medium when present; 

 teeth of average depth, rather wide. Flowers fertile, open early; stamens upright. 



