THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 23I 



DELAWARE. 



(Labrusca, Bourquiniana, Vinifera.) 



orticulturist, 8:492. 1853. fig. 2. 76., 9:98. 1854. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1856:214. 4. 

 Horticulturist, 12:562. 1857. 5. Downing. 1857:336. fig. 6. Horticulturist, 13:58, 179. 1858. 

 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1858:233. 8. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1858:65. 9. Gar. Mon., 1:75, 164. 1S59. 

 10. lb.. 2:13, 26, 117, 176. i860. II. Horticulturist, 16:16, 21, zi' HQ- 1S61. 12. Fuller, 1867:221. 

 13. Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1872:48. 14. lb., 1873:64. 15. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1882-3:28. 16. 

 Bush. Cat., 1883:91. fig. 17. Am. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1885:139. 18. Amcr. Card., 12:584. 1891. 

 19. III. Sta. Bui.. 28:259. 1893- 20. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 15:430. 43i. 432. 433- iSp^- 21. lb., 

 17:528, 540, 543, 544, 545, 547, 554. 1898. 22. Amer. Card., 20:622. 1899. 23. Mich. Sta. Bui.. 169: 

 169. 1899. 24. Amcr. Card.. 22:481. 1901. 25. Traite gen. de vit., 6:186. 1903. 



French Grape (10, 14). Gray Delaware (25). Heath (5). Italian wine grape (5, 8, 13, 14. 16). 

 Ladies Choice (8, 11). Powell (i, 14). Red Riesling, incoir. (5). Rose Colored Delaware (25). 

 Ruff (9, 14). Traminer, incorr. (5). Wine Grape (11). 



Delaware is the American grape par excellence. Its introduction 

 raised the standard of quality in our viticulture to that of the Old World, 

 for there is no variety of Vitis vinifera more richly or more delicately 

 flavored or with a more agreeable aroma than the Delaware. This variety 

 is rightly used wherever American grapes are grown as the standard whereby 

 to gauge the quality of other grapes. Added to high quality it is endowed 

 with a constitution which enables it to withstand climatic conditions to 

 which all but the most hardy varieties will succumb, and so elastic as to 

 adapt it to many soils and conditions, and to bear under most situations an 

 abundant crop. All of this makes it, next to the Concord, the most popu- 

 lar grape for garden, vineyard and wine-press, now grown in the United 

 States. As with the Concord, its introduction gave American grape-grow- 

 ing a great impetus and it is a question whether or not, with its high quality, 

 it has not had a more beneficial effect on the viticulture of the country 

 than the Concord. 



Beside the qualities named above for the Delaware, it matures suffi- 

 ciently early to make its crops certain, is attractive in appearance, keeps 

 well on the vine and in the package, ships well and is more immune than 

 other commercial varieties to black-rot. Its faults are: The small size of 

 the vine, slowness of growth, susceptibility of the foliage to mildew, its 

 capriciousness in certain soils, and the small size of the berries. The first 

 two faults make it necessary to plant the vines more closely than other 

 commercial varieties stand. It succeeds best in deep, rich, well-drained, 



