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notched; teeth shallow to medium, not very wide. Flowers partly fertile to somewhat 

 sterile, open early ; stamens upright. 



Fruit ripens slightly before Concord, keeps and ships only fairly well. Clusters large 

 to medium, short to above medium, often very broad, blunt, slightly tapering, usually 

 single-shouldered but sometimes double-shouldered, compact to medium; peduncle 

 short to medium, thick; pedicel medium to rather long, thick, nearly smooth, wide at 

 point of attachment to berry; brush slender, pale green. Berries rather uniform in size, 

 averaging large, roundish, black, not glossy, covered with heavy blue bloom, persistent, 

 firm. Skin intermediate in thickness, rather tough, adheres considerably to the pulp, 

 contains much purplish-red pigment, slightly astringent. Flesh greenish, translucent, 

 juicy, rather tough, slightly stringy and foxy, nearly sweet at skin but quite acid at 

 center, fair in quality, ranking below Concord. Seeds rather adherent, one to four in 

 number, average two or three, above mean size, inclined to broad, notched, intermediate 

 in length, plump, somewhat blunt, light brown; raphe buried in a rather wide, shallow 

 groove; chalaza nearly large, slightly above center, irregularly circular to oval, obscure. 



(I) ECLIPSE. 



(Labrusca.) 



I. lU. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1899:216. 2. 76., 1904:228. 3. Rural .V. Y., 65:852. 1906. 4. Tb., 

 66:24, 344. 412. 1907. 



Riehl's New Early Grape (3). Riehl's No. 10 (i, 2). Ricbl's .Vo. 10 (4). 



There are two grapes bearing the name Edipse, the origin and history 

 of both of which are briefly set forth below. Of the two, Riehl's Eclipse 

 alone is deemed worthy of general discussion, the other, a green variety 

 of this name, having passed out of cultivation if it were ever gro^ATi in 

 New York. 



The grape under consideration, known for some vears as Riclil's Xo. 

 JO, is a comparatively new candidate for pomological honors, not having 

 been named and introduced as Eclipse until 1906. It has not been grown 

 largely in New York and the East and we can therefore say but little of 

 it other than to describe it as it grows on the Station grounds and to state 

 that in the West, Illinois in particular, it is most highly recommended. 

 At Geneva the Eclipse is very like the Concord, one of its grandparents, 

 it being a seedling of Niagara, differing chiefly in being earlier and of better 

 quality. Bunches and berries are a little smaller than Concord. The 

 vines are hardy, healthy and productive, promising well for commercial 

 plantations. In Illinois it is said to hang on the vines long after it is ripe 



