Diana. 



DESCRirXION OF VARIETIES. 



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ductiveness and good quality as the vines 

 get age ; roots few, but long and thick, soft 

 in texture, and with a thick liber ; canes 

 heavy and long, with few laterals, and a very 

 large pith. It is not as productive, not quite 

 as large in bunch and berry, as its parent, 

 but some think it superior in quality ; unfor- 

 turately it is just as frequently suffering 

 from mildew and rot as tlie Catawba. Its 

 berries hold well, and its thick skin enables 

 it to withstand changes of temperature better ; 

 hence the Diana improves by being left upon 

 the vine until after pretty severe frost. As a 

 variety for packing and keeping, it has no 

 superior. It is valuable also for wine. Must 

 88^-90° ; acid 12. 



Diaua Hamburg'. (Lahr.-Hijbr.) Said to be across 

 hetween tlie Diana and Blacl< Hanil)urg, originated by 

 ■lacob Moore, at Rocliestei', X. Y.; bunches senerally 

 large, sufHciently compact, well shouldered; berries 

 above medium, sliglitly oval, of a rich flery-RED color 

 when fully ripe; flesh tender, of very sweet flavor, 

 equal to some of the finer foreign sorts. Vine a wealv 

 grower, with short-lointed, firm wood, very tender; 

 leaves of medium size, crimped, and sometimes rolled 

 in; subject to mildew. Its fruit ripens after the Con- 

 cord, but before its parent the Diana. We may as well 

 state that at least three independent parties are re- 

 puted to have made this hybrid, and several crosses of 

 the foreign Blaclv Hamburg on the Diana may exist. 

 Ours is from .1. Charlton, Rochester, X. Y., but we might 

 as well attempt to gi'ow the Black Hamburg in open 

 air. Its propagation for the Mississippi Valley should 

 be given up— at least we have done so. 



Dr. Collier. (Lim.X) Syn.: Big Red. One 

 of T. V. Munson's remarkable grapes, a seedling 

 of Fost-Oak crossed with Concord. He sent it to 

 the New York Experiment Station, Dr. Collier 

 director, in the fall of 1892 ; vine hardy, vigorous 

 and productive; leaves out and flowers late, 

 hunch large, cylindrical ; berry large, dark red, 

 becoming purple; skin thin and tough, does not 

 crack, pulp juicy, tender, with red juice; good 

 Concord flavor and quite good quality, hangs on 

 long after ripening without loosing flavor. Ripens 

 just after Concord. 



Dr. Warder. (Lahr.) Originated by Theo- 

 phile Huber. Illinois City, Ills., of unknown 

 parentage. Vine a vigorous grower, healthy, 

 hardy and an immense bearer on his place. 

 Bunch very large, herries same size as Concord, 

 claimed to be sweeter than Concord and to ripen 

 a few days earlier: named in honor of the late 

 Dr. John A. AVarder, of Ohio, and figured in the 

 Rural New York of 1886, but not disseminated. 



Dr. Wylie. One of the late Dr. Wylie's Hy- 

 brids (q. v.) which he sent from South Carolina 

 to our old friend Samuel Miller, without a name, 

 probably a cross between Halifax and Delaware. 

 The vine is a healthy, strong grower and pro- 

 ductive; lunich anl hfrr}/ nearly double the size of 

 Delaware and fully equal to it in quality. It 

 never had a rotten berry, though surrounded by 

 different other varieties that all rotted at same 

 time. Most worthy of trial and dissemination in 

 Missouri and South. 



Don Juan. (Lahr.-H;ibr.) One of Ricketts' 

 seedlings, much like its parent luna. F. R. 

 Elliott says: It is better than any known hardy 

 grape of its color; is about the size, in berry, of 

 Rogers' 1.5, a deeper color, and a larger and 

 better bunch; the flesh is vinous, sweet and 

 sparkling. (See "Ricketts" Seedlings.") 



Downing; {yEst.-Hnhr.) or Charles Downing. 

 A Hybrid obtained by James H. Ricketts, Xew- 

 burgh, N. Y., from the Croton, fertilized by 

 Black Hamburg. ^-Bunches large, sometimes 

 shouldered: herries large, slightly oval, nearly 

 BLACK with light bloom; flesh tender, breaking 

 somewhat like the foreign sorts; in flavor it is 

 first rate, being sweet, with just enough spright- 

 liness to prevent cloying the palate." — Fuller. 



The vine is a vigorous grower, with healthy 

 foliage. According to other reports, it was pro- 

 duced from Israella crossed with Muscat-Ham- 

 burg. It has an unusually long bunch and large, 

 oblong berries — a remarkable grape. Much 

 esteemed as a fine table grape, but it must have 

 favorable location and not be allowed to over- 

 bear. "This is the largest bunch and berry of 

 any outdoor grape I have met with," saj'S Samuel 

 Miller. Specimens received in 1881 from J. G. 

 Burrow, Fishkill, N. Y., were very large and fine 

 — but it is now discarded by him. Mr. Ricketts 

 must have valued it highly, else he would not 

 hav6 given it the name of our revered great 

 Pomologist. 



Dracut Amber. (Lahr.) Syn.. Early Amber. 

 Originated by J. W. Manning, Dracut, Mass. Vine 

 very vigorous, healthy and hardy. Regarded by 

 us as but a slightly improved wild Fox grape; 

 very early and productive. Bunch large and long, 

 compact, often shouldered; berries large, round; 

 skin thick, of pale keu color; pulpy and foxy; 

 too foxy for our taste, and should be discarded, 

 when so many better varieties can be grown. (See 

 Lutie, Wyoming and Woodruff Red.) In Massa- 

 chusetts it is still considered as the one best extra 

 early grape, after the hundred and one other varie- 

 ties have been tried. It is considered worthy of 

 cultivation North, for family use only. 



Dufour. Syn.. Jaeger's No. 56. A seedling 

 raised by Hermann Jaeger, of Neosho, Mo., from 

 his selected Post-Oak grape (No. 43) fertilized 

 with pollen of ^Ilstivalis; same as produced his 

 " Longworth " grape, (q. v.) It resembles Her- 

 bemont in quality and size of bunch and berries, 

 but is of Catawba color; starts growing later and 

 is thereby less exposed to late frosts, fatal to 

 other varieties. Ripening very late, about two 

 weeks after Norton's and keeping easily till late 

 in December. May require winter protection even 

 in South Missouri. (See figure, p. 26.) 



Duchess. {Lahr.-Hyhr.) A fine white table 

 grape, raised near Newburgh, N. Y., by the late 

 A. .J. Caywood. who stated that "it was produced 

 by crossing a AVhite Concord seedling with 

 Delaware or Walter, the pollen of both being 

 applied at the same time." The vine is a vigorous 

 grower, with moderately short-jointed shoots; 

 leates large, light green, rather thick, coarsely 

 serrated, adhere to the vine very late in the season; 

 vine productive. Bunch medium, shouldered, oc- 

 casionally double-shouldered, compact; berries 

 medium, usually one-third Jess in size than on the 

 illustration, roundish; skin rather thick, light 

 green at first, but pale greenish-yellow^ when 

 mature, sometimes a golden yellow where fully 

 exposed and gathered late, and covered with a 

 thin whitish bloom, almost transparent, dotted 

 with diminutive black spots; flesh tender, free 

 from pulp, juicy, sweet, spicy, rich, and of excel- 

 lent quality : the berries adhere stronglj' to the 

 peduncle, and the fruit keeps a long time after 

 being gathered. Ripens soon after the Concord. 



