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Vine vigorous, healthy, productive. Flowers open very late; stamens reflexed. 

 Fruit ripens late, hangs on the vines for three weeks, keeps well. Clusters small, con- 

 taining from four to twelve berries, irregular, loose. Berries large, three-fourths to 

 one and one-quarter inches in diameter, roundish, black or blue-black. Skin very thin. 

 Pulp juicy, sweet, good to best in quality. 



JANESVILLE. 



(Labrusca, Riparia.) 



I. Rec. of Hort., 1868:45. 2. Horticulturist, 24:52, 203. 1869. fig. 3. Montreal Hort. Sac. Rpi., 

 1879:65. 4. Wis. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1881-2:141. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1883:26. 6. Rural .V. Y., 

 45:622. 1886. 7. Wis. Sta. An. Rpt., 5:161. 1888. 8. Mass. Hatch Sta. Bui., 2:20. 1888. 9. 

 Wis. Hort. Soc. Rpt., 1889:117. 10. N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 10:496. 1891. 11. Bush. Cat., 1894:143. 

 12. Del. Sta. An. Rpt., 7:135, 138. 1895. 13. .V. Y. Sta. An. Rpt., 17:531, 545. 547. 555- 1898- 



Endowed with a constitution which enables it to withstand a degree 

 of cold to which most other varieties of grapes would succumb, Janesville 

 has made a place for itself in far northern localities. Moreover, it ripens 

 very early, being one of the first to color though not ripe until some time 

 after fully colored; and earliness is another requisite for a northern loca- 

 tion. The vine, too, is generally healthy, vigorous and productive. But 

 the fruit is worthless where better sorts can be grown. The clusters and 

 berries are small, or of only medium size, while the grapes are pulpy, tough, 

 seedy, with a thick skin and a disagreeable acid taste. Janesville has so 

 many good vine characters that it may be of value for breeding purposes. 

 It is fit for cultivation only in northern localities where better grapes can- 

 not be grown or where fruit for a cheap red wine is wanted. 



Janesville was grown by F. W. Loudon, of Janesville, Wisconsin, 

 from seed secured at the Rock County Fair in 1858. It fruited for the 

 first time in 1861 and was introduced several years later by C. H. Green- 

 man of Milton, Wisconsin, who had bought the variety from the originator 

 for $1000. It was named by the Wisconsin Horticultural Society in 1868. 

 Janesville was placed on the grape list in the American Pomological Society 

 fruit catalog in 1883 and is still retained. It is said by many to be a cross 

 of Hartford and Clinton but this is a sunnise and nothing is positively 

 known as to its parentage. Its botanical characters are plainly those of 

 a Labrusca-Riparia cross but with what admixture of the two S]:>ecies 

 cannot be told. The early blooming season, and sometimes intemiittent 



