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ariety has always ripened its fruit and is a stronger grower than 

 my Concords and does not need the pollen of the Labrusca to 

 insure a crop. The fruit is of most excellent quality. 



Warden. — I have grown this variety eighteen years and cannot 

 speak too highly of it for home use. It is a strong grower and 

 excellent bearer of large clusters and berries. It is superior to its 

 parent, the Concord, but does not bear shipment as well owing to 

 its thin skin. It is good eating before it is ripe. I have to cover 

 this variety with netting during the ripening season to protect its 

 fruit from the attacks of the English sparrow. 



Campbell's Early. — Grown six years. My cultivation of this 

 grape is quite recent, it having fruited but once since planting, but 

 I have carefully watched this variety on the estates of other growers. 

 In some seasons it is as deficient in pollen as some of the hybrid 

 varieties, and, although it colors its fruit early, it is not as early 

 as its name indicates, but the berries hang well to the stems until 

 the leaves fall. In some seasons the fruit is of handsome appear- 

 ance but is not of as high quality as the Worden or Brighton or 

 some others. In my opinion this grape has been greatly overrated. 



Brighton. — This grape which I have grown nineteen years is 

 another of Jacob IMoore's productions and is one of the finest red 

 varieties growing outside of a greenhouse. To be successful with 

 it it must be planted between other varieties to insure poUenization. 

 Then the clusters will be very large if not allowed to overbear, 

 and what is remarkable of this variety the fruit is nicer eating when 

 rose colored than when fully ripe which is a dark maroon. This 

 vine is a strong grower and must be sprayed to keep in healthy 

 condition, especially in unfavorable seasons. It may well be 

 classed as a choice table fruit but has to be protected from the 

 English sparrow. 



Delaware.— I have grown this for twenty years. In this latitude 

 this variety is slow in coming into bearing. My first plantings 

 gave me no fruit until the fifth year. I find that the vines of this 

 grape improve with age, but they must be limited in clusters to 

 insure ripening in our short s?ason. Two clusters to a cane is 

 enough for any of our varieties if high quality and certainty of 

 ripening is desired ; and I do not know of any grape that proves 

 this more than the Delaware or Diana. 



