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al)out i860. It was placed on the grape list of the American Pomological 

 Society fruit catalog in 1875 and although several efforts have been made to 

 have it removed it still remains. It was suspected by some of those familiar 

 with its early history to be a seedling of Isabella or Catawba but there is 

 little or nothing in the vine or fruit to substantiate such a supposition. 



Vine vigorous, healthy, hardy, productive. Canes long to medium, numerous, 

 thick to medium, rather dark brown, deepening in color at the nodes, surface heavily 

 pubescent; tendrils continuous, bifid to trifid. Leaves above medium to small, thick; 

 upper surface medium green, medium to slightly rugose; lower surface grayish-white, 

 heavily pubescent ; veins distinct. Flowers nearly fertile, open medium early; stamens 

 upright. 



Fruit ripens earlier than Delaware, ships well for an early grape. Clusters intermedi- 

 ate in size and length, broad to medium, cylindrical to slightly tapering, often with a 

 short single shoulder, compact. Berries large to medium, distinctly oval, dull green 

 changing to an attractive pale lilac or light red when fully ripe, covered with rather 

 abundant gray or lilac bloom, inclined to drop considerably from the pedicel, somewhat 

 soft. Skin thin, tough, contains no pigment. Flesh nearly white, medium juicy, 

 stringy, fine-grained, firm and meaty, very foxy, sweet at skin to nearly acid at center, 

 poor to fair in quality. Seeds decidedly adherent, numerous, medium to above in 

 size, width and length, somewhat blunt, light brown with yellow tips; raphe buried in 

 a narrow, nearly deep groove ; chalaza small, distinctly above center, oval to pear-shaped, 

 rather distinct. 



POCKLINGTON. 



(Labrusca.) 



I. Car. i\/on., 21:207, 362. 187Q. 2. Mass. //ori. Soc. /?/><., 1880:238. 3. Gar. Mon., 22:1 ^6. 

 iSSo. 4. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt.. 1881:32, 44. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat.. 1881:24. 6. Am. Pom. Soc. 

 Rpt.. 1883:5s. 7. Rural X. Y.. 45:622, 653. 1886. 8. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt.. 1886-87:171. 9. 

 ///. Sta. Bid., 28:266. 1893. 10. Bush. Cat., 1894:169. 11. A'. Y. Sta. An. Rpt.. 13:605. 1894. 

 12. Ih., 15:432. 433- 1896. 13. lb., 17:534. 542. 544, 545. 547. 552. 556. 1898. 14. Ga. Sta. 

 Bui., 53:48, 52, 58. 1901. 15. Kail. Sta. Bui., 110:237. 1902. 



Golden Pocklington (10). 



Before the advent of Niagara, Pocklington was, all things consid- 

 ered, the leading white grape, having very generally displaced Martha. 

 The variety had the fatal fault, however, of ripening late in the latitude of 

 New York which, with some minor defects, has caused it to fall below 

 Niagara in value for the grape districts of this region if not for the whole 

 country. It is now being grown less and less, and though .still commonly 

 found, must soon become largely a grape for the amateur and the collector. 



