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than Delaware, and somewhat hardier, hence better adapted 

 for cold regions, it could have no place in viticulture. Com- 

 pared with Delaware, the vine is hardly as vigorous and is 

 less productive, but is freer from rot and mildew. The bunches 

 are much like those of Delaware but have the fault of setting 

 fruit imperfectly even when cross-pollination is assured; the 

 berries are a little larger, of much the same color and of like 

 flavor, rich, sweet, with pure vinousness and without a trace 

 of foxiness. The fruit keeps well, ships well and does not crack 

 nor shell. Moyer is well established in Canada, proving per- 

 fectly hardy wherever Concord is grown, possibly standing 

 even more cold. W. H. Read, Port Dalhousie, Ontario, 

 raised the original vine of Moyer, about 1880, from seed of 

 Delaware fertilized by Miller's Burgundy. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, healthy, unproductive. Canes numerous, 

 slender, dull, dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; inter- 

 nodes short ; tendrils continuous, long, bifid or trifid. Leaves small ; 

 upper surface dark green, dull, smooth ; lower surface pale green or with 

 faint blue tinge, heavily pubescent ; lobes two to five with terminus 

 acute ; petiolar sinus shallow ; basal sinus shallow when present ; 

 lateral sinus shallow, narrow; teeth very shallow, narrow. Flowers 

 self -sterile, open early ; stamens reflexed. 



Fruit early, keeps well but loses color if kept too long. Clusters 

 small, short, slender, tapering, sometimes single-shouldered ; pedicel 

 short with small warts ; brush yellowish-green. Berries small, oblate, 

 dark red with faint bloom, persistent, firm ; skin tough, free, astrin- 

 gent; flesh translucent, juicy, tender, fine-grained, vinous; good to 

 very good. Seeds free, one to four, broad, short, very blunt, brown 

 with yellow tinge at tips. 



MUSCATEL 



(Vinifera) 

 White Frontignan 



This old and standard sort is rather commonly grown in 

 some of the grape regions of California to follow Chasselas 



