334 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



LUTIE. 



(Labrusca.) 



I. Gar. Mon., 26:307. 1884. 2. lb., 27:304. 1885. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1885:85. 4. 

 lb., 1889:120, 136. 5. .V. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 13:605. 1894. 6. Bush. Cat.. 1894:150. 7. Tcnn. 

 Sta. Bui., Vol. 9:192. iSgO. 8. N. V. Sta. An. Rpt.. 17:532, 545, 547, 555. 1898. 9. Mich. Sta. 

 Bui., 169:172. 1899. 10. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1899:29. 11. Kan. Sta. Bui., 110:236. 1902. 



As with the preceding variety, Lutie is chiefly valuable for its vine 

 characters. It is vigorous, hardy, healthy, and fruitful, though scarcely 

 equaling Lucile in any of these characters. Pomologists differ widely as 

 to the merits of the fruit, some claiming high qualities for it and others 

 declaring that it is no better than the average wild Labrusca. The difference 

 in opinion is partly due to a peculiarity of the fruit. If eaten fresh from 

 the vines, the quality, while far from being of the best, is not wholly bad, 

 but after being picked for several days it develops so much foxiness of flavor 

 and aroma that it is scarcely edible. As Lutie grows on the Station grounds 

 its fruit has little merit, though somewhat attractive in appearance, and 

 the variety can be recommended only for vigor, hardiness, resistance to 

 disease and fruitfulness. It is given the prominence of an illustration in 

 The Grapes of New York out of respect for the opinions of others rather 

 than for its merits as it grows here. It makes a better showing in other 

 grape regions. 



Lutie is a chance seedling found on the grounds of Dr. L. C. Chisholm 

 of Spring Hill, near Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. It was intro- 

 duced in 1885 by Messrs. Coleman, Webber and Newson of Nashville. 

 Lutie was placed on the grape list of the American Pomological Society 

 fruit catalog in 1899 where it has since been retained. Its gross characters 

 are much the same as those of Dracut Amber, Lucile, Wyoming, and Wood- 

 ruff, all typical red Labruscas and worthy of cultivation only where better- 

 flavored varieties cannot be grown. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, healthy, productive. Canes short, of average number, 

 slender, dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, roundish; internodes short; diaphragm 

 thin; pith inclined to small; shoots pubescent; tendrils continuous, short to medium, 

 bifid. 



Leaf-buds small, short to medium, slender, open in mid-season. Young leaves 

 tinged on lower side and along margin of upper side with bright carmine. Leaves 



