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mixed vineyard fails to set fruit well. Fruit ripens about with Salem, keeps a long time 

 in edible condition. Clusters above medium to small, very heavily shouldered, loose, 

 contain many small seedless fruits. Berries variable in size, the fully developed fruits 

 averaging medium to large, roundish, dull, light and dark red, covered with thin lilac 

 bloom or at times with faint tinge of grayish-blue, persistent. Skin covered with scat- 

 tering dark-colored dots, rather thick but tender. Flesh tender, vinous, with indica- 

 tions of Vinifera parentage, sweetish to agreeably tart, flavor pleasing, good to very 

 good in quality. Seeds large, few in number; raphe sometimes shows as a raised cord. 



(I) ALICE. 

 (Labrusca.) 



I. Bush. Cat., 1894:84. 



Alice is one of two New York seedlings of this name offered grape- 

 growers, neither of which is worth a permanent place in viticulture. This 

 grape is a white seedling of Martha, and much resembles that variety. 

 It was originated by J. A. Putnam, Fredonia, New York, who ^vrites that 

 the vine was first fruited in 1890. On account of its close resemblance to 

 Martha it was generally considered unworthy of perpetuation and is now 



practically obsolete. 



(II) ALICE. 



(Labrusca, Aestivalis?, Vinifera?) 



I. Rural N. Y.. 46:.?6. 1887. fig. 2. Ih., 47:161. 1888. 3. .4»«t. Card., 9:7. 1888. fig. 4. 

 AT. Y. Sta. A>:. Rpt., 11:613. 1892. 5. Amer. Card., 16:423. 1895. fig. 6. Mass. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 

 1895:233. 7. A'. Y. Sta. An. Rpt.. 14:275. 1895. 8. Minn. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1896:134- fig- 9- 

 Rural jV. V.. 56:662, 679. 1S07. 10. .V. V. Sta. .An. Rpt.. 17:526, 548, 553. 1898. 



A brief record of the origin, history and gross characters of Alice is 

 herewith given. The grape is of little value in New York. 



This variety was found growing near an old stone wall by Ward D. 

 Gunn of Clintondale, Ulster County, New York, and was transplanted into 

 his vineyard in the spring of 1884. It was introduced by F. E. Young 

 of Rochester. This is a Labrusca, with a few characters that indicate 

 Aestivalis and Vinifera blood. 



Vine vigorous to medium, hardy, produces fair crops. Leaves medium to large, 

 sometimes strongly rugose, with lower surface heavily pubescent. Flowers self-fertile 

 or nearly so, open in mid-season; stamens upright. Fruit ripens with Concord or 

 slightly earlier, the different clusters varying in season of ripening, ships well and keeps 

 in good condition far into the winter. Clusters intermediate in size, usually with a small 



