THE 



Canadian Horticulturist 



Vol XVI. 



1893 



No. 5. 



m. 



THE BRIGHTON GRAPE. 



[O our taste there is no more delicious grape of its 

 season, for table use, than the Brighton. Its 

 thin skin, juicy, tender pulp and excellent quality 

 make it such a favorite for eating that, while it is 

 at hand, no other variety, not even the famous 

 Delaware, is preferred to it. The Hartford, 

 Eumelan and Delaware, ripen about the same 

 time, and the latter has always been considered 

 the standard of excellence in quality, but the 

 Brighton is now esteemed by many its superior. 

 Of course, a good deal depends upon the locality 

 on which it is grown, but, when one considers the larger size of the bunches and 

 the greater productiveness of the latter, we are not surprised that it should be 

 valued as one of the most promising and successful of the newer varieties and 

 that it should he largely planted in the Eastern States where it has already taken 

 its place as the leading table grape. 



We feel warranted from our own experience in recommending this grape for 

 extended cultivation in Ontario, especially in those localities where hybrids cf 

 foreign extraction have been found to succeed, and where early table grapes are 

 n demand. 



In size, color, form of bunch and berry, the Brighton somewhat resembles 

 the famous Catawba, but it ripens a month earlier Our colored plate scarcely does 

 justice to its color ; the bunches too, though often very large, have usually 

 some berries smaller than others, and this is not represented in our illustration 



