Maxatawney. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 



Missouri. 121 



MAXATAWNEY (half diameter). 



for northern localities ; but where it fully ri- 

 pens, as here in Missouri, it is one of the finest 

 of our native white grapes, much like the Eu- 

 ropean white Chasselas. Boots slender, soft in 

 texture and liber. Canes light and of moder- 

 ate length, with average number of laterals. 

 Wood soft with a large pith. Vine healthy and 

 hardy, needs no protection in winter, but not 

 a strong grower nor very productive, and in 

 bad seasons subject to mildew and rot ; foliage 

 large, deeply lobed. 



We recommend it only for garden culture, in 

 good rich ground. 



Medora. (JEst.) A seedling of the Lenoir probably 

 crossed with the Croton, as the clusters from which the 

 seed was taken came from a Lenoir vine interlaced 

 with the branches of a Croton vine in Onderdonk's 

 experimental vineyard. Dr. Thomas R. Cocke, an old 

 esteemed amateur horticulturist and friend of Onder- 

 donk, living about twenty miles below Victoria, Tex. , 

 towards the Gulf, carefully planted that seed, and se- 

 lected this one as the most promising of those seed- 

 lings. The foliage is like the Lenoir, except that its 

 young terminals show little or no pink tinge, which is 

 almost characteristic in the Lenoir ; the berries are 

 white, medium, round, translucent enough to see the 

 seed, and of delicious flavor pronounced by good 

 judges "the nicest and sweetest grape they had ever 

 tasted"; the bunches are medium to large, about the 

 same as the Warren ; the vine not a very vigorous 

 grower and inclined to over-production. 



Onderdonk thinks this will prove the happiest 

 acquisition to the grapes of the Gulf States since the 



Herbemont and Lenoir ; he is now propagating it, and 

 suggested the name MEDORA., being that of a daughter 

 of Dr. Cocke. 



Merrimack. (Rogers' No. 19.) Regarded by 

 some as the finest grape in the collection of 

 Rogers' hybrids. M. P. Wilder says : 



It is one of the most reliable varieties in all 

 seasons. Vine very vigorous, free from disease ; 

 bunch usually smaller than his other black 

 sorts ; berry large, sweet, tolerably rich. Season 

 about the 20th September (in Massachusetts). 



We prefer his No. 4, the "Wilder"; it is like 

 it in quality, with by far larger and heavier 

 bunches, and mt>re profitable. 



Miles. (Labr.) Origin Westchester Co., Pa. Vine 

 a moderate grower, hardy and productive ; bunch 

 small, rather compact; berry small, round, black. 

 Flesh tender, slight pulp at centre ; brisk, vinous, 

 pleasant. Ripens among the earliest, but does not hang 

 long. We cannot recommend it for vineyard culture 

 as a profitable market grape, but rather for family use 

 as a good early table grape, especially lor the North. 



Minor's Seedling-. (See Venango.) 



Miner's Seedling's. (Not to be confounded with 

 Minor's Seedling or Venango.) Produced by the late 

 T. B. Miner, at Linden, Union Co., N. J. The follow- 

 ing have been selected out of 1500 seedlings grown by 

 him in central New York : Adeline, Antoinette, Augus- 

 ta, Belinda, Carlotta, Eugenia, Ida, Lexington, Linden, 

 Luna, Rockingham, and Victoria. Most of them are 

 white grapes. 



Minnesota. Mammoth. Origin unknown ; in- 

 troduced in fall of 1879 by L. W. Stratton, Excelsior, 

 Minn. ; said to be a very prolific and hardy native 

 grape, the berries of which are as large as pigeons' 

 eggs, and to have a fine delicate flavor. We have been 

 unable to obtain any definite information about it. 



Mrs. McLure. One of Dr. Wylie's hybrids ; a 

 cross between Clinton and Peter Wylie. Bunch 

 medium, not very compact, shouldered ; berries 

 medium, white, very vigorous, quality good as 

 a table variety, and probably valuable also as 

 a white- wine grape. Foliage resembling Clin- 

 ton, growth very rampant. Berckmans. 



Missouri. Syn., MISSOURI SEEDLING. Mentioned 

 by Buchanan and Downing, but now unknown even in 

 Missouri. According to Downing : Probably a seed- 

 ling from one of the Pineau or Burgundy grapes, which 

 about forty years ago was considerably cultivated 

 in the vineyards of Cincinnati. It was received there 

 from the East under this name. It has short-jointed, 

 grayish wood, spotted with dark brown specks ; buds 

 in clusters, double and triple; leaves deep-cut, tri- 

 lobed. 



Bunches loose and of moderate size ; berries small, 

 round ; skin thin, almost black, with little bloom ; 

 flesh tender with little pulp, sweet and pleasant; 

 not very productive nor of vigorous growth. 



It certainly never came from Missouri. 



Missouri Riesling. 



page 103.) 



(See Grein's Seedlings, 



