VARIETIES OF GRAPES 389 



might be used in giving color to grape products. The variety 

 is of French origin. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, productive. Canes numerous, thick, light 

 brown with blue bloom ; nodes enlarged ; internodes short ; tendrils 

 intermittent, long, bifid or trifid. Leaves small, thin; upper surface 

 light green, glossy, smooth ; lower surface green, hairy along ribs 

 and large veins ; lobes three to five with terminal one acute ; petiolar 

 sinus narrow, sometimes closed and overlapping ; lateral sinus a notch. 

 Flowers semi-fertile, open early ; stamens upright. 



Fruit mid-season, does not keep well. Clusters medium in size, 

 short, cylindrical, single-shouldered, compact ; pedicel long, slender 

 with few small warts; brush short, wine-colored. Berries small, 

 oblate, black, glossy with thick bloom, persistent, firm; skin thir, 

 tender with very dark wine-colored pigment ; flesh green with reddish 

 tinge, translucent, juicy, fine-grained, tender, spicy, tart ; fair in 

 quality. Seeds free, one to five, small, short, light brown. 



IDEAL 

 (Labrusca, Vinifera, Bourquiniana) 



Ideal is a handsome seedling of Delaware, from which it dif- 

 fers chiefly in being larger in bunch and berry, attaining in both 

 of these characters nearly the size of Catawba. In Kansas and 

 Missouri, this variety is highly recommended, not only for the 

 high quality of the fruit, ranking with Delaware in quality, but 

 because of vigorous, healthy, productive vines. But farther 

 north the vines are precariously hardy and not sufficiently fruit- 

 ful, healthy nor vigorous to warrant high recommendation. 

 Ideal originated with John Burr, Leavenworth, Kansas, from 

 seed of Delaware, about 1885. 



Vine vigorous, doubtfully hardy, productive"; tendrils intermittent, 

 bifid or trifid. Canes long, numerous, slender, dark brown; nodes 

 enlarged, flattened ; internodes long. Leaves large, variable in color ; 

 lobes three to five ; petiolar sinus deep, wide ; teeth deep, narrow ; 

 upper surface light green, dull ; lower surface pale green, pubescent. 



Fruit early mid-season, keeps well. Clusters large, broad, heavily 

 shouldered ; pedicel thick ; brush green. Berries large, round, dark 



