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characters are spoken of in the superlative by the French, in 

 America the variety is not so highly esteemed because of sus- 

 ceptibility to fungi. Moreover, the fruit matures so late that 

 it could never become a valuable variety for the North. It is 

 in no sense a table-grape but makes a well -colored, pleasant 

 wine. Charles Arnold, Paris, Ontario, grew Othello from seed 

 of Clinton fertilized by Black Hamburg and planted in 1859. 



Vine vigorous, hardy, productive. Canes long, brown; nodes 

 enlarged, flattened ; tendrils continuous, sometimes intermittent, bifid 

 or trifid. Leaves of average size ; upper surface light green, dull 

 and smooth ; lower surface pale green, pubescent ;. lobes three to five 

 with terminal lobe acute; petiolar sinus deep, very narrow, frequently 

 closed and overlapping; basal sinus shallow, narrow; lateral sinus 

 deep ; teeth deep, wide ; stamens upright. 



Fruit late, keeps fairly well. Clusters large, long, broad, tapering, 

 frequently with a loose single shoulder, compact ; pedicel long, slender 

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

 large, oval, black, glossy with abundant bloom, very persistent ; skin 

 thin, tough, afdherent with red pigment ; flesh dark green, very juicy, 

 fine-grained, tough, sprightly ; low in quality. Seeds free, one to three, 

 neck sometimes swollen, brown. 



OZARK 



(^Estivalis, Labrusca) 



Ozark belongs to the South and to Missouri in particular. 

 Its merits and demerits have been threshed out by the Mis- 

 souri grape-growers with the result that its culture is some- 

 what increasing. It is a grape of low quality, partly, perhaps, 

 from overbearing, which it habitually does unless the fruit is 

 thinned. The vine is healthy and a very strong grower, but 

 is self -sterile, which is against it as a market sort. In spite of 

 self-sterility and low quality, Ozark is a promising variety for 

 the country south of Pennsylvania. Ozark originated with 

 J. Stayman, Leavenworth, Kansas, from seed of unknown 

 source. The variety was introduced about 1890. 



