490 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



Missouri Bird Eye. Mentioned in the United States Patent Office Report for 1S59 

 as being free from ri:)t in the vicinity of Hermann, Missouri. 



Missouri Muscadine. Mentioned in the Illinois Horticultural Society Report for 1877 

 as being very liardy and very productive. 



Modena. (Lab.) A Concord seedling; from Caywood, about 1S67. Vigorous and 

 hardy; bunch and berry medium, roundish, black; similar to Concord in flavor and ripens 

 about with that variety. 



Moffats. Mentioned in the Minnesota Horticultural Society Report, 1877, as being 

 a large, hardy grape. 



Moltke. (Lab. Vin.) A seedling of Salem; from F. E. L. Rautenberg, of Lincoln, 

 Illinois. Very productive and vigorous, resembles Agawam; cluster medium, some- 

 times shouldered; berries very large, oblong, dark red; skin thick; sweet and aromatic; 

 ripens ten days earlier than Agawam. 



Monarch. (Lab.?) Tested by the Alabama Experiment Station and reported as 

 " vigorotis and a strong grower. Clusters large, compact; berries large, round, black 

 with blue bloom; skin thick; pulp half tender, pleasant, quaUty good; season last of 

 August; productive. A promising market grape." 



Monard. Vine weak; stamens reflexed; bunch small to medium; berry medium, 

 light red; very good; a few days later than Concord. 



Monlintawba. (Mon. Line. Vin. Lab.) A seedling of Vitis nionticola by Fern 

 Munson; from Munson. Stamens depressed; cluster large; berry small, purple; ripens 

 very late. 



Montclair. (Lab. Vin.) From C. C. Corby, of Montclair, New Jersey. Moderately 

 vigorous, not fully hardy, productive; stamens upright; clusters above medium, long 

 and broad, tapering, shouldered; variable in compactness; berries large to medium, 

 slightly oval, dark red with lilac bloom, unusually persistent; skin thin, tough; pulp 

 greenish, somewhat tough and solid, slightly vinous, sweet; good to very good; late in 

 ripening. 



Montisella. (Mon. Line. Lab. Aest.) A seedling of Vitis nionticola crossed with 

 Laussel; from Munson. Stamens reflexed; cluster medium; berry medium, purple; 

 ripens very late. 



Montour. (Lab.) Mentioned by the United States Department of Agriculture in 

 their report for i86g in a list of varieties of Labrusca. 



Montreal. Noted in the Rural New Yorker for 1886 as being a new black grape, 

 superior to Concord; from Wm. E. Green of Vermont. 



Morin. Noted by Prince in Gardener's Monthly, 1863, in a list of worthless varieties. 



Morrell Seedling. Raised by a Mr. Morrell of Germantown, New York; noted in 

 Gardener's Monthly for 1871. A medium-sized blue grape with a sharp and pleasant 

 flavor. Said to be a " better grape than Hartford Prolific or Concord, but not equal 

 to them in earliness." 



