Anna. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 



Autuchon. 71 



senting thereto. Hunches medium, slightly 

 shouldered, moderately compact, more even, 

 and better on an average than Rogers' grapes 

 generally make ; berries full medium to large, 

 dark purple, nearly black, with a fine bloom. 

 Flesh melting, with but little pulp, sweet and 

 of fine flavor, ripening very early, about with 

 the Hartford Prolific. We consider it one of 

 our earliest good grapes. Vine moderately 

 vigorous, quite hardy, productive, but fruit 

 inclined to rot. Deserves to be extensively 

 cultivated as a table grape in rot-free localities. 



Anna. Seedling of Catawba, raised by Eli Has- 

 brouck, Newburgh, N. Y., in 1852. G. W. Campbell, of 

 Delaware, Ohio, describes it as very hardy and healthy 

 and of a moderate growth. Bunches rather loose, of 

 medium size ; berries medium ; color light amber, with 

 small dark specks, covered with thin, white bloom. 

 Rather pulpy. Ripens with the Catawba. Not worth 

 planting here ; unhealthy and feeble. 



Antoinette (Labr.), one of Miner's seedlings. A 

 handsome, large white grape of the Concord charac- 

 ter, with long, moderately compact bunches ; a strong 

 growing, healthy vine, and very productive ; ripens 

 earlier than Concord ; flavor sweet, rich, with little 

 pulp, few seeds, and but little of the foxy aroma. May 

 prove valuable as a good early white grape. 



Ariadne (or Areadine, incorrectly spelled.) (Ripa- 

 ria.) One of Ricketts' Clinton Seedlings, promising 

 for red wine ; vine vigorous and healthy, immensly 

 productive, much inclined to overbear ; bunch com- 

 pact, resembling Clinton, but much better in quality ; 

 very juicy, sweet ; producing a light red, heavy wine 

 of fine flavor. These notes, taken at J. H. Ricketts'* 

 Experimental Grounds several years ago, are some- 

 what modified by his List of March, 1882, wherein he 

 describes it as a Seedling of Clinton and a Newburgh 

 Vinifera ; the wood short-jointed and only moderately 

 vigorous ; foliage medium, coarsely serrated ; bunch 

 small to medium, compact ; berry small, round, black, 

 with a light blue bloom ; flesh soft, tender, juicy and 

 sweet. It makes a very dark and rich wine, of good 

 body, with the old Sherry flavor. Mr. Ricketts is 

 quite confident that this grape will become popular 

 for wine purposes, as soon as known. 



Arnold's Hybrids.* See Othello (No. 1.) Cor- 

 nucopia (No. 2.) Autuchon (No. 5.) Brant 

 (No. 8.) Canada (No. 16.) 



Arrot (or Arcott?) (Labr.) Philadelphia; bunch 

 and berries medium, white ; resembling the Cassady 

 in appearance, but not as good. " Sweet and good, 

 with a thick skin, good grower, and productive." 

 Husmann. 



* Charles Arnold, of Paris, Canada, has been success- 

 ful in his experiments in hybridizing the native Clinton 

 with the pollen of foreign varieties. His seedlings seem 

 to be of decided promise in some localities. The Com- 

 mittee of the Paris Horticultural Society say in their 

 report: "We find the most prominent characteristics 

 of them as a class are: first, perfect hardiness and vig- 

 orous growth ; second, early ripening both of the fruit 

 and wood, and as yet remarkable freedom from disease, 

 with large, handsome foliage of a veiy distinct char- 

 acter and not wooly ; bunches large on the average ; the 

 berries larger than medium; skin thin, and in all the 

 numbers we tested, free from pulp, with a full, pleasant, 

 sprightly flavor; our judgment being based not on a 

 cursory examination, but from having known them for 

 the last two seasons." 



AUTUCHON. 



Autucnou. (Arnold's Hybrid No. 5.) A seedling 

 of Clinton, crossed with Golden Chasselas. Leaves 

 dark green, very deep lobed and sharp pointed serra- 

 tures; the unripe wood is very dark purple, nearly 

 black. Bunches very long, not heavily shouldered, 

 rather loose ; berries medium size, round, white (green), 

 with a moderately firm, but readily melting flesh, and 

 an agreeable, sprightly flavor, resembling the White 

 Chasselas. Skin thin, without astringency. Ripens 

 with the Delaware. Sam. Miller, the originator of the 

 Martha, bestowed the following high encomium upon 

 the new grape in 1869 : 



" I have always considered Martha the best white 

 native grape, but since seeing and tasting the Autu- 

 chon, I haul down my colors. If it will ripen like 

 this in Canada, and if it improves by coming here like 

 Rogers' and other Northern grapes, then it seems to 

 me we have all that can be desired. It alone is a 

 treasure." 



It is well that friend Miller qualified his encomiums 

 by " ifs," for the Autuchon did not come up to those 

 expectations ; it proved tender and unreliable, in the 



