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was found in the woods over forty years before that date by Samuel M. 

 Devereaux, who lived near Sparta, Georgia. It has been considerably 

 confused with varieties which resemble it. The name Lincoln, in particu- 

 lar, is a questionable synonym which Dr. Curtis of Hillsboro, North Caro- 

 lina, in a letter to the Gardener's Monthly for i860,' states was found near 

 the junction of the South Fork and Catawba Rivers by Dr. William 

 McLean. It was known locally under the names of McLean and Hart. 

 Later it was sent to Longworth, who gave it the name Lincoln. 



The descriptions of this variety from various sources are conflicting. 

 That given below is copied from the Bushberg Catalogue.' 



" Bunch long, loose, slightly shouldered; berry black, below medium, round; skin 

 fine, tender; flesh meaty, juicy without pulp, and vinous; quality best. Vine a strong 

 grower, and, when free from mildew, moderately productive ; wood long-jointed, purplish 

 brown at first, of deeper purplish red when ripe; with bi-forked, intermittent tendrils 

 — these, as also the leaf stalk, are tinged on their base with a purplish brown hue, 

 Hke the young canes; the buds are covered with a russet down, unfolding with that 

 rosy complexion peculiar to the young, downy leaves of most Aestivalis. The developed 

 foliage is of medium size, entire (not lobed), considerably wrinkled, turgid, with 

 somewhat abundant hair tufts on the lower veins." 



DIAMOND. 



(Labrusca, Vinifera.) 



1. Gar. Mon., 26:336. 1884. 2. lb., 28:333. 18S6. 3. Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt.. 1887-8:85 

 4. Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1889:328. 5. A^. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 9:332. 1890. 6. Kan. Sta. Bui. 

 28:161. 1891. 7. Rural N. Y ., 50:691, 787. 1891. 8. Kan. Sta. Bid., 44:118. 127. 1893 

 9. Rural N. Y., 53:616, 645, fig., 646. 1894. 10. Gar. and For., 8:96, 377, 487. 1895. 11 

 N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 15:432, 433. 1896. 12. Tcnn. Sta. Bui., Vol. 9:175, 176. 1896. fig. 13- 

 Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1897:19. 14. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 17:529. 538, 54o, 543. 544. S47. 549. 554 

 189S. 15. Va. Sta. Bui., 94:139. 1898. 16. i\/o. Sta. Bui., 46:38, 44, 45, 50. 1899. 17. Can 

 Hort., 25:125, 190. 1902. fig. 



Diamond, Moore (13). Moore's Diamond (i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9.) ^loorc's Diamond (15, 17). 



Diamond is surpassed in quality and beauty by few other grapes. 

 When to its desirable fruit characters are added its earliness, hardiness, 

 productiveness and vigor it is surpassed by no other green grape. Niagara 

 is more productive and therefore more profitable in most localities but in 



' Gar. Mon., 2:265. i860. 

 ^ Bush. Cat., 1894:116. 



