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THE GRAPES OF XEW YORK. 



Missouri Bird Eye. Mentioned in the United States Patent Office Report for 1859 

 as being free from rot in the vicinity of Hermann, Missouri. 



Missouri Muscadine. Mentioned in the Illinois Horticultural Society Report for 1877 

 as being very hardy and very productive. 



Modena. (Lab.) A Concord seedling; from Ca\T\-ood, about 1867. Vigorous and 

 hardy; bunch and berry medium, roundish, black; similar to Concord in fiavor and ripens 

 about with that variety. 



Moffats. Mentioned in the Minnesota Horticultural Society Report, 1877, as being 

 a large, hardy grape. 



Moltke. (Lab. Vin.) A seedling of Salem; from F. E. L. Rautenberg, of Lincoln, 

 Illinois. Ver}^ productive and vigorous, resembles Agawam; cluster medium, some- 

 times shouldered; berries very large, oblong, dark red; skin thick; sweet and aromatic; 

 ripens ten days earlier than Agawam. 



Monarch. (Lab.?) Tested by the Alabama Experiment Station and reported as 

 "vigorous and a strong grower. Clusters large, compact ; berries large, round, black 

 with blue bloom; skin thick; pulp half tender, pleasant, quality good; season last of 

 August; productive. A promising market grape." 



Menard. Vine weak; stamens reflexed; bunch small to medium; berry medium, 

 light red; verj' good; a few days later than Concord. 



Monlintawba. (Mon. Line. Vin. Lab.) A seedling .of Viiis mouticola by Fern 

 Munson; from Munson. Stamens depressed; cluster large; berry small, purple; ripens 

 very late. 



Montclair. (Lab. Vin.) From C. C. Corby, of Montclair, New Jersey. Moderately 

 vigorous, not fully hardy, productive; stamens upright; clusters above medium, long 

 and broad, tapering, shouldered; variable in compactness; berries large to medium, 

 slightly oval, dark red with lilac bloom, unusually persistent ; skin thin, tough ; pulp 

 greenish, somewhat tough and solid, slightly vinous, sweet; good to ver\' good; late in 

 ripening. 



Montisella. (Mon. Line. Lab. Aest.) A seedling of Vitis fnonticola crossed with 

 Laussel; from Munson. Stamens reflexed; cluster medium; berrj' medium, purple; 

 ripens very late. 



Montour. (Lab.) Mentioned by the United States Department of Agriculture in 

 their report for i86g in a list of varieties of Labrusca. 



Montreal. Noted in the Rural New Yorker for 1886 as being a new black grape, 

 stiperior to Concord; from Wm. E. Green of Vermont. 



Morin. Noted by Prince in Gardener's Monthly, 1863, in a list of worthless varieties. 



Morrell Seedling. Raised by a Mr. Morrell of Germantown, New York; noted in 

 Gardener's Monthly for 187 1. A medium-sized blue grape with a sharp and pleasant 

 flavor. Said to be a " better grape than Hartford Prolific or Concord, but not equal 

 to them in earliness." 



