488 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



Michigan. (Lab. Vin.) A seedling of Salem from C. Engle, Paw Paw, Michigan. 

 Vigorous, hardy and productive; cluster large, compact, usually shouldered; berry above 

 medium, light green; good; ripens with Concord. There was another sort named ilich- 

 igan or Michigan Seedling about fifty years ago which was said to resemble Catawba 

 but about two weeks earlier. 



Middlesex. (Lab.) One of E. W. Bull's seedlings. Apparently never disseminated. 



Miland. Described in Alahcwia Station Bulletin No. 29, 1891, as a vigorous, not 

 very healthy vine with medium-sized amber berries. 



Miles. (Rip. Lab.) Matlock. From West Goshen Township, Chester County, 

 Pennsylvania, over sixty years ago. Vigorous, productive, very early but does not 

 keep ; better than Hartford. 



Millardet. (Berland.) From Llano County, Texas. Moderately vigorous, pro- 

 ductive; stamens refiexed ; cluster large; berry small, black; good; ripens late. 



Miller. (Cord. Vin.) Mentioned by John Craig in the Canadian Horticulturist as 

 a new grape, " a xery happy combination of the European V. viiiifcra and the American 

 V. cordifolia. It also keeps excellently." 



Miller. (Bourq. Lab.) A seedling of Herbemont by Martha; from Munson. 

 Stamens erect; cluster large; berry medium, white; ripens late. 



Miller's Seedlings. Samuel Miller, during his early life a resident of Calmdale, 

 Pennsylvania, later of Bluffton, Missouri, was one of the well known grape-breeders 

 of the last century. He started this work about the time of the introduction of Con- 

 cord and continued it until his death in igoi. Miller was an advocate of close breeding 

 rather than cross-breeding as a means of improving fruit. His best known grape pro- 

 ductions are: Black Hawk, Eva, Macedonia, Martha and Young America. Martha is 

 the best known of these and this has been superseded. At the time of Miller's death 

 he was engaged in improving the native persimmon. 



Millington. (Lab.) Tested by the Michigan Experiment Station and reported in 

 1 899 as being fairly vigorous, variable in productiveness; clusters large, roundish, 

 moderately compact; berries large, round, black with blue bloom; flesh tender, very 

 light green, sprightly, sweet, vinous, with a perceptible aroma; fair to good; ripens 

 mid-season. 



Millington White. (Rip.) Mentioned by Prince in 1830 as having been found 

 growing north of the Missouri River, in Missouri, by Dr. Millington of that state. " Fruit 

 of good size, very juicy, rather tart, the skin is thin and each berry generally contains 

 three seeds." 



Mineola. (Lab. Vin.) A cross between a seedling of Telegraph and Chasselas 

 Musque; from C. J. Copley, Stapleton, New York. Of medium vigor, healthy, hardy 

 and productive; bunches medium, cylindrical, compact, seldom shouldered; berries 

 large, roundish, white or pale yellow, transparent, no pulp; very rich, pure, Muscat 

 flavor; ripens very early. 



