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with foliage free from mildew and rot, and well-flavored, tender-fleshed 

 berries with thin tough skins. It requires too long a season for maturity 

 for successful cultivation in New York. 



Munson grew Jaeger from seed of a selected wild Post-oak vine polli- 

 nated by Herbemont. The seed w"as planted in 1885 and the variety was 

 introduced by the originator in 1890. The culture of Jaeger seems to be 

 slowly spreading. It was placed on the grape list of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society fruit catalog in 1897 and is still retained there. 



Vine vigorous, doubtfully hardy, an uncertain bearer in New York on account of 

 winter injury but yielding good crops farther south. Canes variable in length, inter- 

 mediate in number and thickness, covered with considerable blue bloom ; tendrils inter- 

 mittent, bifid to trifid. Leaves large, not uniform in color; lower surface grayish-green, 

 slightly pubescent; stamens upright. Fruit ripens soon after Concord, matures evenly, 

 keeps and ships well. Clusters medium to large, frequently single-shouldered, strongly 

 compact. Berries below medium to small, roundish, frequently compressed on account 

 of compactness of cluster, attractive black, covered with abundant blue bloom, per- 

 sistent. Skin thin, tough. Flesh medium juicy, fine-grained, tender, spicy, somewhat 

 tart from skin to center, good in quality. Seeds separate very easily from the pulp, 

 not numerous, long, intermediate in size, sometimes with enlarged neck. 



JAMES. 



(Rotundifolia.) 



I. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpl., 1889:136. 2. Bush. Cat., 1894:178. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1899:30. 

 4. Ga. Sta. Bui., 53HS- 1901. $. N. C. Sta. Bid., 187:61 . 1003. 6. S. C. Sta. Bui., 132:16, 18. 1907. 



James is the only variety of Rotundifolia possible to illustrate in this 

 work. The accompanying color-plate, while not wholly satisfactory, vet 

 shows characteristic fruit and foliage somewhat reduced in size. James 

 is one of the largest of the Rotundifolia grapes and probably the best 

 general purpose variety of this species. It cannot be grown north of 

 Maryland. 



The variety was originated by J. Van Lindley of Pitt County, North 

 Carolina. It was introduced about 1890 and was placed on the grape list 

 of the American Pomological Society fruit catalog in 1899. It is not known 

 in the North but is cultivated more or less throughout the habitat of Vitis 

 rotundifolia in the South. 



The following description of the variety is a compilation: 



