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Fruit ripens among the earliest of the white grapes, keeps onlj' fairly well. Clusters 

 medium to small, not long, slender, tapering, usually single-shouldered, intermediate 

 in compactness. Berries small to medium, roundish, light green, often tinged with 

 yellow, covered with thin grayish-white bloom, rather persistent unless overripe, 

 moderately soft. Skin rather thin, of average toughness, adheres but slightly to the 

 pulp, contains no pigment, faintly astringent. Flesh pale green, almost transparent, 

 juicy, tender, soft, sprightly, sweet, good to above in flavor and quality. Seeds adhere 

 somewhat to the pulp, about average in size and length, medium to broad, notched, 

 brownish; raphe buried in a narrow groove; chalaza small, above center, circular, nearly 

 distinct. 



JEWEL. 



(Labrusca, Bourquiniana, Vinifera.) 



I. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt.. 1883:78. 2. ///. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1885:280. 3. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpi.^ 

 1885-6:128. 4. Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1886:187. 5. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt.. 1886-7:205. 6. Rural 

 X. v., 46:607. 1887. fig. 7. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1887:08. 8. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1888-9:107. 

 9. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt., i8Sg:s73- lo- N- Y. Sta. An. Rpt., ii:62y. 1893. 11. Sm5/i Ca?., 1894:144. 

 12. .V. Y. Sta. An. Rpt.. 17:531. 548, 555. 1898. 13. Mo. Sta. Bid., 46:39, 42, 46, 51, 76. 1899. 



Burr's E.\rly (i, 2). Burr No. 1 (4). Jewell (2) 



Jewel has much to recommend it, yet it has been grown since 1874 

 without having become widely distributed or well known. Its strong 

 characters are earliness and high quality, though as compared with Dela- 

 ware, its parent, it is not lacking in vigor, health, or hardiness, the vine 

 characters that contribute most to a desirable variety. For a grape of 

 this parentage, it is remarkably free from fungal diseases. In form and 

 size of bunch and berry it closely resembles Delaware but is a deep black 

 in color. The flesh characters and flavor are much like those of Delaware, 

 the pulp being tender, yet firm, and the flavor having the same rich, 

 sprightly, vinous taste found in the parent, though it can hardly be said 

 to equal the Delaware in the characters which make high quality. The 

 seeds are few and small. The skin is thin but tough, and the fruit, con- 

 sidering the tenderness of the flesh, ships remarkably well. It keeps long 

 and does not shell, and though an early grape, will hang until frost if the 

 robins, one of the worst pests of the grape-grower, can be kept from them. 



Jewel is a most excellent little grape, almost worthy the place among 

 black grapes that Delaware has among red ones. In particular it is 

 recommended for its earliness and for those localities to the North where 

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