296 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



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

 numerous, of average thickness, moderately dark brown to reddish-brown, surface cov- 

 ered with thin blue bloom; tendrils continuous, bifid to trifid. Leaves large, medium 

 to thick; upper surface dark green, slightly glossy, of average smoothness; lower surface 

 whitish, changing to a rather heavy bronze, strongly pubescent; veins well defined. 

 Flowers fertile or nearly so, open early; stamens upright. 



Fruit ripens with Concord or slightly earlier, keeps fairly well. Clusters large to 

 medium, long to medium, broad, tapering, often single-shouldered, medium in compact- 

 ness. Berries large, roundish, dark purplish-black to black, covered with heavy blue 

 bloom, inclined to shatter somewhat when overripe, firm. Skin intermediate in thick- 

 ness, tender, contains a small amount of very dark wine-colored pigment. Flesh greenish, 

 juicy, rather tough, fine-grained, faintly foxy, sweet at skin to acid at center, mild 

 when fully ripe, good in quality. Seeds somewhat adherent, above medium in size, 

 short, broad, blunt, brownish; raphe buried in a rather broad groove; chalaza of average 

 size, slightly above center, oval to circular. 



HIDALGO. 



(Vinifera, Labrusca, Bourquiniana.) 

 I. Rural N. Y., 60:637. igoi. 2. Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1904:306. 



Hidalgo is a comparatively recent addition to the list of grapes for 

 table use. While it has not been tried generally, and is not widely known 

 as yet, it is accorded a color-plate and a full description in this work chiefly 

 because of its remarkably fine quality. It is rich and sweet, delicately 

 flavored, yet sprightly, and with color, size and form of berry and bunch 

 so well combined as to make it a singularly handsome fruit. The skin is 

 thin but firm and the variety keeps well and ships well. The vine characters 

 for this State are not well known. On the grounds of this Station it is 

 doubtfully hardy, variable in vigor, and not always fniitful. While Hidalgo 

 may not prove of value for the commercial vineyard, in favorable situa- 

 tions it may be expected to give a supply of choice fruit for the amateur. 



The parentage of Hidalgo as given by its originator, T. V. Mimson, is 

 Delaware, Goethe and Lindley. The variety was introduced by the orig- 

 inator in 1902 and is now being tested in various parts of the country. 

 The reports that come from tliose who have seen or gro\\Ti Hidalgo agree 

 in the main with the characterization given above and bespeak for it a 

 higli degree of popularity, at least as a table grape for the garden and 

 possibly for the vineyard. 



