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Vine vigorous to very vigorous, hardy, productive to very productive. Canes 

 intermediate in length and number, of average size, rather dark brown; nodes enlarged, 

 flattened; intemodes medium to below in length; diaphragm thick; pith nearly large; 

 shoots pubescent; tendrils continuous, inclined to long, bifid. 



Leaf-buds of medium size, short, rather thick, obtuse to conical, open in mid-season. 

 Young leaves strongly tinged on lower side and along margin of upper side with carmine, 

 making the prevailing color rose carmine. Leaves medium to large, intermediate in 

 thickness; upper surface dark green, dull, rugose; lower surface dull gray often with 

 trace of bronze, slightly downy; veins indistinct; lobes usually three, often obscurely 

 five, terminal lobe acute; petiolar sinus deep to medium, of average width; teeth of fair 

 depth, shallow. Flowers fertile, open medium early; stamens upright. 



Fruit ripens early, three weeks or more before Concord and about a week before 

 Hartford, ships well but does not keep well, as its season is very short. Clusters medium 

 to small, of mean length and breadth, blunt, cylindrical to slightly tapering, usually 

 not shouldered, medium to compact; peduncle short, rather thick; pedicel inclined to 

 short, covered with small inconspicuous warts; brush whitish tinged with brown. Berries 

 medium to above in size, roundish, dull black covered with a moderate amount of blue 

 bloom, not alw^ays persistent, somewhat soft. Skin thick, tender, adheres considerably 

 to the pulp, contains a fair amount of light purplish pigment, astringent. Flesh light 

 green, translucent, juicy, fine-grained, tender, foxy, rather sweet next the skin, agreeably 

 tart at center, poor in quality. Seeds slightly adherent, one to five, average three, 

 large, somewhat broad and long, blunt, light brown; raphe obscure; chalaza of fair 

 size, slightly above center, circular, obscure. 



CHAUTAUQUA. 



(Labrusca.) 



I. .V. Y.Sta. An. Rpt., II -.618. 1892. 2. 76., 13:602. 1894. 3. Bush. Cat., 1894:102. 4. .V. Y. 

 Sta. An. Rpt., 17:528, 548, 554. 1898. 



In appearance Chautauqua is very similar to Concord, its parent, but 

 it ripens a few days earlier and is of slightly better quality though it does 

 not differ in these respects sufficiently to make it more than an easily 

 recognized strain of Concord. Inasmuch as it originated, and for fifteen 

 years has been known, in the region where the Concord reigns supreme, 

 and has not yet come into prominence, it is fair to assume that it has some 

 weakness and that the parent will remain dominant. 



Chautauqua is a volunteer seedling of Concord found in a Concord 

 vineyard near Brocton, Chautauqua County, New York, by H. T. Bash- 

 tite who sent vines of it to this Station in 1802. 



