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CALIFORNIA FRUITS: HOW TO GROW THEM 



merits were first announced. Seems best adapted to interior situations and 

 is chiefly grown for shipping in the San Joaquin Valley. 



Black Ferrara. A large black grape; large bunches; berries cling well 

 to the stem, thick-skinned, flavor superior. An excellent local market va- 

 riety and long-distance shipper. 



Lady Fingcr v (Pizutella di Roma). "Bunches are usually large and long; 

 berries are long, white and thin-skinned. Flesh tender, crisp and sweet. 

 Vine a rapid and strong grower, bearing very large foikige." Roeding. 



Gros Colman; syn. Dodrelabi. "Vine strong-growing, with dark brown- 

 ish wood; leaves very large, round, thick, very slightly lobed, shortly and 

 bluntly toothed, glabrous above, close-woolly below; bunches large, short 

 well filled, but not compact; berries very large, round, darg blue, with 

 thick but tender skin. Remarkable as having the largest berries of any 

 round berry variety known, and is probably the handsomest black table 

 grape grown. The grapes have good keeping qualities, except that they are 

 liable to crack." Bioletti. 



Black Morocco. "Vine a strong grower, with thin,- spreading canes, 

 leaves under medium size, very deeply fiye-lobed, even when very young, 

 the younger leaves truncate at base, giving them a semi-circular outline, 

 with long, sharp teeth alternating with very small ones, glabrous on both 

 sides, bunches very large, short, shouldered, and compact; berries very 

 large, round, often angular from compression, fleshy, of neutral flavor, dull 

 purple color or colorless in the center of the bunch. Remarkable for the 

 number of second crop bunches which it produces on the laterals. Late 

 in ripening and of very fine appearance; a fairly good shipping grape, but 

 difficult to pack on account of the size and rigidity of the bunches. The 

 grapes are of an agreeable crispness, but lacking in flavor." Bioletti. Vine 

 quite subject to root knot. 



Verdal; Aspiran Blanc. "Vine of medium vigor and rather hardy; canes 

 somewhat slender and half erect; leaves of average size, glabrous on both 

 surfaces, except below near the axis of the main nerves, sinuses well 

 marked and generally closed, giving the leaf the appearance of having five 

 holes; teeth long, unequal, and somewhat acuminate; bunches large to very 

 large, irregular long-conical, without any or with small shoulders, well- 

 filled to compact; berries yellowish green, large to very large, crisp, with 

 thick but tender skin, agreeable, but without marked flavor." Bioletti. 

 Grown as a late table grape; in good condition in some regions as late 

 as November. 



Almeria; syn. Ohanez. "Vine vigorous; leaves of medium size, round 

 and slightly or not at all lobed, quite glabrous on both sides, teeth obtuse 

 and alternately large and small; bunches large, loose or compact, irregular 

 conical; berries from small to large, cylindrical, flattened on the ends, very 

 hard and tasteless." Bioletti. The grape cultivated at the University Ex- 

 periment Stations under this name is one of the several varieties which are 

 shipped in such large quantities from Malaga and Almeria packed in cork 

 dust. The grapes ripen late and attain about 20 per cent sugar. They have 

 remarkable keeping qualities. Vine needs long pruning, and is only 

 adapted to hot, interior situations. 



There are many other vinifera varieties which are grown to a 

 limited extent either for raisins or for table use. Among these are 

 the Canon Hall Muscat, the White Tokay, White Champion, Cin- 

 saut, Zabalskanski, etc. 



EASTERN GRAPES 



Though many of the improved varieties of the grape species 

 indigenous east of the Rocky Mountains, and of the hybrids between 

 these species and the vinifera, have been introduced in California, 



