528 THE GR,\PES OF NEW YORK. 



Halifax and Delaware No. 49. (Lab. Bourq. Vin.) A black grape of high vinous 

 flavor. 



Halifax and Delaware No. 55. (Lab. Bourq. Vin.) Bunch medium, long, shoul- 

 dered; berries large, dark blue or purple with a purple bloom; flesh tender, juicy, very- 

 sweet, sprightly, high flavored; best. 



Halifax and Hamburg No. 11. (Vin. Lab.) Very productive and healthy; bunch 

 medium; berry medium, black, with thick skin. 



Hybrid Scuppernong No. 4. (Rot.) Exhibited at the American Pomological 

 Society in 1877. Healthy, ver^^ productive; bunches medium, compact; berry round, 

 greenish -white ; pulp nearly melting, very juicy, sprightly, vinous, with a musky aroma; 

 good. 



Hybrid Scuppernong No. 5. (Rot. Vin.) Parentage, Bland Madeira and Foreign 

 No. I, crossed with a staminate hybrid Scuppernong produced by impregnating Black 

 Hamburg with Scuppernong. Healthy and hardy; bunch medium; berries large, white, 

 transparent with thin tough skin; almost pulpless, rich, sweet, with a pecuHar flavor; 

 as early as Concord. 



Xenia. (Lab. Vin. Bourq.) Parentage, Delaware, Goethe and Triumph; from 

 Munson. Vigorous; cluster medium, compact; berry very large, white; skin thin and 

 tough; pulp meaty, tender, sprightly, high flavor; best; very late, with Fern Munson or 

 just before. 



Xlnta. (Line. Rup. Vin. Lab.) One of Munson 's seedlings; America fertilized 

 with R. W. ]\Iunson. Vigorous, hardy in Southern States; stamens reflexed; cluster 

 large, cylindrical, shouldered, fairly compact; berries medium to large, globular, black, 

 with little bloom; skin thin; pulp meaty, tender, sprightly; season with or later than 

 Concord. 



Yoakum.- (Bourq.) According to Bushberg Catalogue, 1894, " resembling the 

 Herbemont, its juice is of deeper color, its foliage is more deeply lobed, but otherwise 

 much inferior; ripening unevenly and being less productive." 



Yomago. (Lab. Vin. Bourq.) A cross between Delago and Brilliant, by Munson, 

 about 1894. As grown at this Station, a weak grower, not hardy, variable in pro- 

 ductiveness; flowers fertile, bloom late; stamens upright; clusters large, usually single- 

 shouldered, compact; berries large, roundish, black, glossy, covered with heaw blue 

 bloom; skin thin and tender; flesh pale green, tender, spicy, sweet with Post-oak flavor; 

 fair to good; it is doubtful if it will ripen in this locality. 



Yonkers. (Lab.) A Concord seedhng; from J. W. Gray, Atwood, Illinois. Hardy, 

 not a strong grower; bunch medium, shouldered, compact; berries large, round, light 

 green; sweet; good; ripens a little before Concord. 



York Claret. (Lab.) According to Prince, 1830, a native cultivated near York, 

 Pennsylvania, where it is much esteemed for wine. Bunches and berries smaller than 

 those of Alexander; without pulp, very juicy, sweet. 



