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to ten days earlier than Concord, keeps well. Clusters variable in size and length, often 

 single-shouldered, not uniform in compactness. Berries above medium to small, round- 

 ish, greenish-yellow to slightly golden yellow, covered with thin gray bloom, persistent. 

 Skin thin, tender, covered with few small reddish-brown dots. Flesh fine-grained, 

 tender, vinous, sweet at skin to agreeably tart at center, rather mild, good in quality. 

 Seeds few, of average size, medium to short, often plump. 



HEADLIGHT. 



(Vinifera, Labrusca, Bourquiniana.) 



I. Rural N. Y., 60:637. 1901. 2. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1903 ;S2. 3. U. S. D. A. Yr. Bk., 

 1903:376. col. pi. 4. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1904:301, 306. 



Headlight is one of the most promising of Munson's many valuable 

 grapes. Possibly it is more valuable for southern vineyards than for 

 northern ones, yet it is worthy of trial in the North. Its meritorious 

 characters are: Productiveness, outyielding Delaware with which it would 

 compete in New York; disease-resistant foliage and vines little affected by 

 mildew and rarely attacked by black-rot even in the South; more than 

 average vigor of vine, though it has fallen short of expectations in this 

 respect in the Station vineyard ; high quality of the fruit, being almost the 

 equal of Delaware in flavor and having tender melting pulp which readily 

 parts from the seeds; and earliness, ripening before Delaware and hanging 

 on the vines or keeping after being picked for some time without deteriora- 

 tion in either quality or appearance. Though a southern grape it has proved 

 perfectly hardy here and were it not that it must compete in the North with 

 many other good grapes, Delaware in particular, it might take high place 

 in northern viticulture. Even with such competition it is well worth a 

 trial in either the amateur or commercial vineyards of New York. It . 

 would seem that for the South its resistance to disease should make it a ( 

 valuable commercial variety. 



The originator of Headlight, T. V. Munson, states in a personal letter 

 that it came from Moyer seed fertilized by Brilliant. The seed from which 

 the variety came was planted in 1895 and the new grape was introduced 

 in 1 90 1 by the producer. While Headlight is as yet comparatively little 

 known, it is being tested in many of the grape regions of the country and its 

 value should soon be known. Such reports of its behavior as have been 

 made are in the main very favorable. 



