Ch idester. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 



Clinton. 103 



No. 2 is not only best in quality, but has a re- 

 markable vigorous growth, with very large leaves, 

 and is very productive. Bunch and berries re- 

 semble Concord, except being of a little lighter 

 color, very juicy and sweet; pulp tender and 

 ripening as early as Worden, adhering firmly to 

 the stem and keeping well until about 1st of No- 

 vember. 



No. 3 resembles the Concord very closely in 

 vigorous growth, color and productiveness, but 

 its berries are one-third larger, about the size of 

 Moore's Early, or even larger. Bunch medium 

 size, very compact, not shouldered. Flesh firm, 

 but juicy and sweet ; qualitj^ good ; adheres to the 

 stem ; ripens Avith Concord, alid keeps well, with- 

 out cold storage, till Jauuar}^ 1st. 



Christie's Improved. (Lain-.) See Isabella. 



Christine. (Lahr.) See Telegraph. 



Cig-ar Box. (^fJest.) See Ohio. 



CLARA 



Clara. (Vitiif.) 

 Supposed to be from 

 foreign seed. A 

 WHITE (or |)ale am- 

 ber)grape; very fine 

 for the table ; some- 

 what like Allen's 

 Hybrid. iJw/ic/t long, 

 loose; 6er>7/ medium 

 round, yellowish 

 green, transparent, 

 without pulp, sweet 

 and delicious, but 

 very uncertain. 

 Rather tender and 

 requires protection 

 in the winter. Not 

 worthy of cultiva- 

 tion since we have 

 so many superior 

 varieties. Never- 

 theless we hear it 

 praised in France as 

 one of the Ameri- 

 can varieties doing 

 remarkably well 

 there, being vigor- 

 ous and productive, 

 apparently Phyll- 

 oxera proof in the 

 midst of badly in- 

 fected vines (in the 

 vineyard of M. Bor- 

 ty, at Roquemare). 

 We are inclined to 

 believe that the 

 name is incorrect. 

 The above figure of 

 the Clara grape is 

 reduced to H of its 

 natural size ('4 di- 

 ameter). 



<'lRret. (?) A seedling of Cliiirles Carpenter, Kelly 

 Island, O. Bunch and berry medium: C'i.ahet red; acid; 

 vine vigorous: not valual)le.— Z>o(rm'Hflr. 



Clarissa. (Jli/hr.) A seedling of Salem, pro- 

 duced b}' Rautenberg, of Lincoln, 111., and con- 

 sidered his finest fiavored white grape. Re- 

 sembles Eldorado in color and flavor, but is hardier, 

 yet also not sufticiently productive. The vine is a 

 medium grower, with long-jointed wood; it stood 

 20° below zero without protection or the loss of a 

 single bud; the hunch has been only medium to 

 small, but may improve with age, the vine being 

 yet very j'ouug. Deserves ciireful nursing. 



Cleyeuer. (JKi^t.) Considered by some to be 

 identical with a grape cultivated in Switzerland 

 under the name of Clevener, a Burgundy grape of 

 Europe. Prof. Munson regards these varieties, 

 such a Clerener. as Northern representatives of the 

 Vitis Bourquiniana, while the Southern type of 

 the species is seen in the Herbemont. We believe 

 the Clevener to be the same as our Louisiana and 

 Rulander. (See description and history of these 

 in this catalogue.) 



Clevener. (Hip.) Quite different from the 

 above; is a member of the American Riparia 

 class— formerly considered the Cordifolia, for its 

 heart-shaped (or slightly tri-lobed) foliage. — It 

 is grown to some extent around Egg Harbor City, 

 N. J., for more than a quarter century and was 

 probably named by emigrants f;-om the Duchy of 

 Cleve, near Dusseldorf ; certainly not for any re- 

 semblance to the European grape of that name, 

 but in memory of the fine old castle of their native 

 home, known as theSchwanenburg, made familiar 

 by Wagner's opera of Lohengrin. The plant has 

 a verj' vigorous growth and blossoms profusely, 

 being one of the earliest to bloom ; sometimes it 

 sets its fruit in medium-sized, compact clusters, 

 which are black Avhen ripe and scarcely dis- 

 tinguishable from the Diogenes (see Ironclad) ; it 

 is also considered rot-proof, making a very dark 

 — in fact, inky — wine (which, however, loses much 

 of its inky character with age). The ripe fruit 

 produces a sugary must with a verj^ small pro- 

 portion of acid, and it would be one of our most 

 reliable grapes, except that it often fails to prop- 

 erly set its fruit, producing in consequence, 

 scraggy bunches with sometimes only a few ber- 

 ries to the bunch. It is one of the first to color, 

 but one of the last to ripen — and is now replaced 

 by better varieties. 



Clifton. (Lahr.-Hglir.) Originated by Chas. 

 S. Copley of Staten Island, from a crossing of 

 Telegraph (Labr.) with W. Froutignan (Vin.) 

 The vine a strong grower, hardy, healthy and 

 productive; v-ood light brown, short-jointed; 

 leaves 5-lobed, coarsely toothed, leaf-stalk light 

 green and color of leaf the same. The bunch as 

 large as Lady Washington and fills up very solid, 

 not shouldered. The berries are white, very 

 large; require thinning out to show at its best, 

 the bunches also require thinning; the stem is 

 very short. Liable to mildew in unfavorable 



Clifton's Constantia. (Labr.) See Alexander. 



Clinton. (Hip-) Syn. : Worthingtox. 

 Strong says that, iu the year 1821, the Hon. 

 Hugh White, then in Hamilton College, N.Y., 

 planted a seedling vine in the grounds ol 

 Prof. Noyes, on College Hill, which is still 

 remaining, and is the original Clinton. 

 Bunches medium or small, compact, not shoul- 

 dered ; herry round, below medium size, 

 BLACK, with a heavy bloom : skin thin, tough ; 

 flesh juicy, with little pulp, brisk and vinous ; 



