170 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



vice of dropping the fruit. These qualities 

 give it the first position in this group as a 

 market fruit. We place the Isabella after 

 the Concord, only because it can not be ripened 

 over so wide a surface ; but where it will ripen, 

 it ought to take precedence of it. So, too, of 

 the Creveling. We make no comparisons for 

 wine, because we do not consider this group 

 true wine grapes. 



