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and healthy and usually are productive. In 

 appearance the grape is excelled by but few 

 other sorts. 



Worden 

 Concord is and for many years has been the 

 standard black commercial grape, and its chief 

 rival to-day is one of its seedlings, the Worden. 

 The new variety is reported as producing 

 larger berries and bunches than its parent, 

 ripening a little earlier, hanging to the vine 

 not so well and being more fastidious as to 

 soils. In our vineyards these characteristics 

 have not been emphasized. The fruit is so 

 nearly like the Concord that the two varieties 

 can not be distinguished except by taste. The 

 Worden claims a better flavor and more desir- 

 ability as a table grape. In season of ripening 

 we have not noticed enough difference to affect 

 the harvesting of the crop materially. Both va- 

 rieties are gathered at about the same time and 

 both seem to hang to the vines after they are 

 fully ripe equally well. Some years I have 

 thought that Concord kept better and the next 

 year my opinion would be reversed. Although 

 we have several thousand vines of the two va- 

 rieties, they are not yet old enough to have es- 

 tablished themselves perfectly and as the sea- 

 sons pass the differences may be more marked. 

 I know that this deduction has already been true 

 of some sorts which promised well at first and 



