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growers consider the Concord the better of the 

 two grapes. Perhaps it is, but to my taste they 

 are so similar that I can see no difference. 

 However, I am not particularly unreasonable 

 about my grapes and when a fairly good one 

 ripens ahead of some other sort I am perhaps 

 inclined to think pretty well of its ambitions. 



Niagara 



Niagara is a beautiful white grape similar 

 in many respects to Diamond but falling short 

 of that variety in hardiness and perhaps in 

 some other characteristics. Except that it is 

 more tender I have not been able to note much 

 difference between this variety and the Dia- 

 mond. It is just about an even race as to which 

 sort is better for commercial growers — there 

 are several better ones for the amateur. 



Norton 



If this chapter had been written a few years 

 ago the Norton would have been entitled to a 

 conspicuous place, for it is one of the best 

 wine grapes grown in this country — and it is 

 fit for little else. It can not be grown success- 

 fully in New York, but in southern Ohio, Indi- 

 ana and on west to the grape districts of 

 Missouri it was a very largely cultivated sort. 

 As wine is now obsolete in this country the 



