4o8 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



TAYLOR. 



(Riparia, Labrusca.) 



I. Valky Farmer. 1858:122. 2. Horticulturist, 14:486. 1859. 3. lb., 15:34. i860. 4. Gar. 

 Mon., 2:68, 119, 163. 1S60. 5. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1860:78. 6. Horticulturist, 19:156. 1864. 

 7. Husinann, 1866:104. 8. Fuller, 1867:231. 9. Grape Cult., 1:44, 74, 242, 291, 296. 1869. 

 10. ///. Hart. Soc. Rpt., 1881:161. 11. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 1883:133. 12. Bush. Cat., 1883:20, 

 13S. 13. Te.x. Sta. BhI, 48:1151, 1162. iSgS. 14. Mo. Sta. Bid., 46:41, 43. 45. 46, 76- 1899. 

 15. Ga. Sta. Bid., 53:49. 190 1. 



Bullitt (i, 4). Bullitt (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12). Taylor (2, 5). Taylor (4, 11). Taylor Bullit 

 (13, 14). Taylor's Bullitt (8, 11). Taylor's Bullitt (12). 



Taylor is hardly known in New York nor, indeed, is it now much 

 grown elsewhere. It is of interest for the part it has played in the grape 

 culture of the past and especially for its worthy offspring. Many of these 

 now outrank the parent in the regions and for the purposes for which 

 Taylor is grown. In truth, the most valuable quality of Taylor seems to 

 be its capacity for transmitting its good characters to its seedlings; some 

 of course fall much below it, as a table or wine grape, but a considerable 

 number quite equal it, and a few surpass it, but all resemble the parent 

 vine much more than is common among grapes. While it is from the 

 species to which Taylor belongs that we must look for our hardiest vines 

 yet this grape and its offspring, though not particularly tender to cold, do 

 best in southern regions as they require a long, warm summer and fall to 

 mature properlv. Taylor was long grown in both Europe and California 

 as a grafting stock for the Old World varieties as a protection against 

 phylloxera, and is still somewhat cultivated in these regions for that 

 purpose. 



The quality of the fruit of Taylor is from fair to good, the flavor being 

 sweet, pure, delicate and spicy and the flesh tender and juicy, but the 

 btmches are small, the flowers infertile so that the berries do not set well 

 and give very imperfect and unsightly clusters. The skin is such, too, 

 that it cracks badly, a defect that is seemingly transmitted to many of the 

 seedlings of the variety. The vine is strong, healthy, hardy but not very 

 productive. Taylor is essentially a wine grape, and it is not likely that it 

 or many of the varieties bred from it will make table grapes. The wine is 

 said to be exceptionally good, of great body and high flavor. 



The original vine of Taylor was a wild seedling found in the early 



