212 GRAPES. 



native fox grape of New England, fertilized by the 

 foreign Black Hamburg. It is light purple, and 

 very large and showy. Quality, good to very good, 

 and a good keeper. 



Brighton. Amber or brownish red; berries 

 oblong; medium size or below; bunch very long, 

 shouldered, but not compact. The vine is a 

 vigorous grower, and fruit ripens with or before the 

 Concord. Quality, best. 



Coe. This is an old variety that seems not to 

 have taken so good a hold of the public as some 

 others that are far inferior. It is a very early, black 

 grape; bunch and berry small, but an immense 

 bearer and almost as hardy as the Clinton. It is 

 one of the grapes that will do in most locations for 

 the arbor, or where it is not to be protected during 

 winter. It is much better in quality of fruit than 

 the Janesville, and nearly as good a grower. 



Clinton. This approaches nearer the type of the 

 wild or ( ' Frost Grape ' ' than any other cultivated 

 variety. It is very hardy; black, bunches small 

 and compact; fruit, below medium size. It has the 

 high vinous flavor of the wild grape, and is valu- 

 able for wine making. Its fault is in bearing a few 

 berries of green fruit in each bunch, which gives it 

 an unsightly appearance. Though the quality is 

 such as to rule it from the list of table grapes, it is, 

 when thoroughly ripe and has been kept for a few 

 weeks, of very fair quality, and by some preferred 

 to the Concord. The leaf is light and thin like 

 the wildings. 



