366 THE GRAPES OF XEW YORK 



Vine variable in vigor and productiveness, healthy, not always hardy. Canes 

 intermediate in length and number, medium to slender, dark brown, sometimes with a 

 a slight red tinge, heavily pubescent; tendrils continuous, bifid, dehisce early. Leaves 

 medium to ver}' large and of distinct Labrusca type, inclined to roundish, thick: upper 

 surface of medium greenness, dull, medium to rugose; lower surface dark bronze, heavily 

 pubescent; veins well defined. Flowers fertile to sterile, open in mid-season or earlier; 

 stamens upright. 



Fruit ripens about with Worden, does not keep well. Clusters medium to small, 

 short, of average width, frequently oval but sometimes roundish, occasionally single- 

 shouldered, medium to compact. Berries medium to large, roundish to oval, dark 

 amber to dull brownish-red, covered with thin gray bloom, drop badly from pedicel. 

 Skin variable in thickness, medium to tough, adheres considerably to the pulp, contains 

 little or no pigment, slightly astringent. Flesh very pale green, juicy, fine-grained, 

 tender and soft, unusually foxy, sweet, poor in quality. Seeds separate easily from the 

 pulp, often numerous, large, broad, faintly notched, long, not blunt, brownish; raphe 

 obscure; chalaza of average size, slightly above center, variable in shape, often showing 

 as an obscure depression. 



NORTON. 



(Aestivalis, Labrusca.) 



I. Prince, 1830:186. 2. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt., 1845:939. 3. Horticulturist, 12:461. 1857. 

 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt.. 1858:68. 5. lb.. i86o:S8. 6. Horticulturist. 16:16, 286. 1861. 7. U. S. 

 Pat. Off. Rpt.. 1865:107. 8. Horticulturist, 20:39. 1865. 9. Husmann. 1866:19,48, 85, Sy. fig., 

 98. 10. Horticulturist. 22:355. 1867. 11. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1867:44. 12. Am.. Pom. Soc. 

 Rpt.. 1867:111. 13. Grape Cult., 1:5, 74, 98, 122, 138, 150. 212, 296. 1869. 14. Bush. Cat., 

 1883:126. 15. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1885:100. 16. Ih., 1889:109. 17- Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt.. 1891: 

 131. 18. Am. Card., 20:688. 1899. 19. Mo. Sta. Bui., 46:40, 43, 45, 51, 54. 1899. 20. A^ Y. 

 Sta. An. Rpt., 18:397. 1899. 21. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1905:59. 



Norton's Seedling (9). Norton's Virginia (3, 5, 6, 7. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 21). Xorton's 

 Virginia (14, 18). Norton's Virginia Seedling (i, 2, 4). Virginia Seedling (9, 13). 



Norton is the leading wine grape in eastern America, and, if we except 

 Cynthiana, which can hardly be told from it, the wine made from it is the 

 best of its class made in the regions in which the variety will grow. The fruit 

 is of small value for any other purpose than wine. Norton is fairly hardy 

 but requires a long warm season to reach maturity. While it is said 

 that it may be grown wherever Catawba thrives, this has not proved to 

 be the case in New York; Norton in this State is far more precarious than 

 Catawba in maturity, so much so that it is now scarcely grown even in the 

 most favored parts of New York. It has great adaptability to soils and 

 thrives in rich alluvials or clays, gravels or sands, the only requisite seem- 



