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Lucile may be recommended where an extra hardy grape is desired, for 

 locahties where the season is short, and as a variety for breeding purposes, 

 should it prove capable of transmitting its vine characters, and for those 

 who do not object to foxiness of taste and aroma in grapes. 



J. A. Putnam of Fredonia, Chautauqua County, New York, is the 

 producer of Lucile. The vine fruited for the first time in 1890, it being 

 then two years old, and was introduced by Lewis Roesch of Fredonia 

 in 1899. It is supposed to be a seedling of Wyoming which it resembles 

 very much in both fruit and vine characters and surpasses in both. It is a 

 typical red Labrusca in all of its characters. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, very productive, yielding as good or better crops than Con- 

 cord. Canes medium to long, rather numerous, intermediate in thickness, light brown; 

 nodes strongly enlarged, usually flattened; internodes medium to short; diaphragm 

 moderately thick; pith about medium in size; shoots sHghtly pubescent; tendrils con- 

 tinuous, of average length, bifid to trifid. 



Leaf-buds below medium to small, short, moderately thick, pointed to conical, 

 open in mid-season. Young leaves heavily tinged on lower side and along margin of 

 upper side with bright cannine. Leaves healthy, medium to large, of average thickness, 

 firm; upper surface light green, glossy, moderately smooth; lower surface pale green or 

 with tinge of bronze, pubescent; veins distinct; leaf usually not lobed, with terminus 

 acute; petiolar sinus shallow, narrow to medium, sometimes closed and overlapping; 

 basal sinus usually absent ; lateral sinus a mere notch when present ; teeth very shallow, 

 of average width. Flowers fertile, open early; stamens upright. 



Fruit ripens earlier than Concord or in some seasons about with Worden, keeps 

 fairly well. Clusters medium to large, above average length, slender, cylindrical to 

 tapering, usually single-shouldered, very compact; peduncle intermediate in length, 

 large; pedicel short, thick, covered with few, small, inconspicuous warts; brush light 

 brown. Berries large to medium, roundish to somewhat oval when strongly compacted, 

 dark red, duller than Wyoming, covered with thin lilac bloom, persistent, firm. Skin 

 medium to thin, somewhat tender, contains a small amount of light red pigment and 

 some astringency. Flesh pale green, translucent, juicy, rather tough, sometimes stringy, 

 foxy, sweet next the skin to slightly tart at center, fair to good in quality, not equal to 

 Concord but superior to Wyoming. Seeds separate with difficulty from the pulp, one to 

 four, average three, small, broad, short to medium, blunt, dark brown; raphe obscure; 

 chalaza intermediate in size, slightly above center, oval, distinct. 



