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light green; lower surface grayish-white, pubescent. Flowers nearly sterile to partly 

 fertile, open medium late; stamens upright. Fruit ripens soon after Niagara, ships 

 well and keeps into the winter. Clusters medium to above in size, of average width, 

 often blunt at ends, usually not shouldered, intermediate in compactness, with many 

 abortive fruits. Berries medium to large, slightly oval or obovate, dull green changing 

 to a faint yellow tinge, covered with thin gray bloom. Flesh pale green, tender and 

 soft, vinous, nearly sweet at skin to tart at center, fair to good in quality but not equal 

 to some other white grapes of the same season. Seeds intermediate in size and length. 



GLENFELD.i 



(Labrusca.) 



I. iV. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 11:624. 1892. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1807:19. 3. .V. Y. Sta. An. 

 Rpt., 17:530. 548, 555. 1898. 



Grown in the Station vineyard since 1889, Glenfeld has made a some- 

 what favorable impression because of its excellent quality but it seems not 

 to have been well received throughout the State and it is doubtful if it has 

 more than a local reputation about the place of its origin. It is equaled 

 or surpassed, however, by many other varieties of its season in vine charac- 

 ters and there is therefore little need that it should be longer perpetuated, 

 though it may be worthy a place in the garden. 



Glenfeld was found on the place of George J. Magee of Watkins, New 

 York. Mr. Magee reports that the vine was on the place when he pur- 

 chased it and the former owner knew nothing of it. The variety was 

 locally supposed to be a seedling of Concord. It was sent to this Station 

 for testing in 1889. For some reason it was placed upon the grape list of 

 the American Pomological Society fruit catalog for 1897. Such action 

 was hardl}' justified, as the variety had never been tested except in one or 

 two neighborhoods, and it was taken off at the next meeting. 



Vine vigorous, hardy except in severe winters, produces good crops. Canes long, 

 numerous to medium, intermediate in thickness; tendrils continuous to intermittent, 

 bifid to trifid. Leaves often very large, variable in color, medium to thick; lower surface 

 tinged with bronze, strongly pubescent. Flowers nearly fertile, open in mid-season or 

 earlier; stamens upright. Fruit ripens early in October, keeps fairly well. Clusters 

 large to below medium, variable in shape, usually with a medium-sized single shoulder, 



' This variety was named Glenfeld by Mr. Magee, its originator, not Glenfield as it is frequently 

 spelled. 



