VARIETIES OF GRAPES 409 



MAXATAWNEY ^ 



(Labrusca, Vinifera) 



While at one time very popular, grape-growers now seldom 

 hear of Maxatawney. It is a southern grape, ripening its 

 fruit in the North only occasionally. The variety is interesting 

 historically as being the first good green grape and as showing 

 unmistakable Vinifera characters, another example of the 

 fortuitous hybridization which gave so many valuable varieties 

 before artificial hybridization of Vinifera with native grapes 

 had been tried. In 1843, a man living in Eagleville, Pennsyl- 

 vania, received several bunches of grapes from Maxatawney. 

 The seeds of these grapes were planted and one grew, the result- 

 ing plant being the original vine of Maxatawney. 



Vine vigorous, doubtfully hardy, variable in productiveness. 

 Canes medium in length, slender, reddish ; nodes enlarged, flattened ; 

 internodes short; tendrils continuous, bifid. Leaves large, dark 

 green, thick ; lower surface grayish-white with tinge of bronze, heavily 

 pubescent ; lobes three to five ; petiolar sinus narrow ; teeth shallow. 

 Flowers self -sterile, open in mid-season ; stamens upright. 



Fruit late, keeps well. Clusters small to medium, short, slender, 

 cylindrical, occasionally with a small, single shoulder, compact; 

 pedicel long, slender, warty ; brush long, yellow. Berries variable in 

 size, oval, pale red or dull green with amber tinge, with thin bloom, 

 persistent ; skin tough, astringent ; flesh tender, foxy ; good to very 

 good. Seeds free, few, large, very broad, blunt. 



MEMORY 



(Rotundifolia) 



Memory is one of the best of the Rotundifolia grapes for 

 the garden and local markets, its fruits being especially good 

 for dessert. As yet, however, the variety has not been widely 

 distributed even in North Carolina where it originated. The 

 vine is given credit for being the most vigorous grower and 

 the most productive of the grapes of its species. Memory 

 is probably a seedling of Thomas, which it much resembles, 



