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the berries cracking though this is seldom a serious fault. These defects 

 do not begin to offset the several good characters of Winchell and it is, for 

 New York at least, the standard early green grape and deserving to rank 

 with the best early grapes of any color. 



The original vine of this variety was raised by James Milton Clough of 

 Stamford, Bennington County. Vermont, about the midtlle of the last 

 century from seed of an unknown purple grape. For some vears it had a 

 local reputation and was propagated by some of Clough "s neighbors. By 

 what name it was then known does not appear. In December, 1885, accord- 

 ing to their statements, Ellwanger & Barry of Rochester, New York, 

 received this variety from C. E. Winchell, then of Stamford. In 1888, 

 this firm introduced the variety to the trade. The same year there was 

 introduced by Stephen Hoyt's Sons of New Canaan, Connecticut, a variety 

 under the name Green Mountain. This firm states that thev bought the 

 variety from James M. Paul, of North Adams, Massachusetts, in December, 

 1885. Previous to his sale Paul had sent a vine of the grape to this Station; 

 he exhibited fruit of Green Mountain before the American Pomological 

 Society in 1887, but without any name. 



Later grape-growers found that Winchell and Green Mountain were 

 very similar or identical. Unfortunately, in the meantime, Paul had died 

 and no one knows positively where he secured his vines although there is 

 every reason to believe they were from Mr. Clough. Those who consider 

 the Winchell and Green Mountain separate varieties say the Winchell has 

 larger berries and is somewhat later in ripening than the Green Mountain. 

 Though unal)le to make a close comparison of vines and fruits of the two 

 supposed varieties, the authors of TIic Grapes of Neiv York choose to 

 consider them so nearly identical, if not identical, as to pass under one 

 name which should be the one first published, Winchell. 



Although the botanical characters of this variety are chiefly Labrusca, 

 the thin bloom which sometimes shows on the canes, the occasional inter- 

 mittent tendrils, and the lobing of the leaf, indicate slight admixtures of 

 Vinifera and Aestivalis. 



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

 slender, medium dark brown, surface covered with very thin bloom; nodes enlarged, 

 flattened; internodes above medium to short; diaphragm thick; pith medium to below 



