Triumph. 



DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 



Una. 141 



Triumph. (Campbell's Concord Hybrid No. 

 6.) Was justly pronounced by Samuel Miller, 

 to whom Campbell confided this new variety 

 for testing and propagation in Missouri, as the 

 most promising of all the white grapes. It is a 

 cross between Concord and Chasselas Musque. 

 (Syn., Joslyn's St. Albans.) It has retained, 

 the vigor and general habit of foliage and 

 growth of its parent; its fruit, however, is 

 wholly free from any vestige of coarseness or 

 fox flavor, or smell. Bunch and berry are very 

 large ; color white, or, more correctly, pale 

 green to golden -yellow, nearly transparent 

 with delicate bloom ; skin thin, no pulp ; flesh 

 sweet, meaty; in unfavorable weather the 

 berries are apt to crack (like Elvira) ; small 

 seeds and few of them ; ripens later than Con- 

 cord, nearly as late as Catawba, and on that 

 account not recommended for the North or for 

 any locality where the season is too short to 

 ripen the Catawba or Herbemont, but the 

 more valuable farther South; quality first 

 rate ; vine healthy and hardy, very productive 

 and free from disease, showing no rot when 

 even Concord rotted more or less. Unfortu- 

 nately the vines of this variety proved some- 

 what tender with us, suffering during severe 

 winters if left unprotected. In the favorable 

 season of 1880 the "Triumph" fully justified 

 its name in our vineyards ; it is by far the most 

 attractive of all our white table grapes. Its 

 bunches, grown by us in open air, with ordi- 

 nary vineyard culture, are very heavy, and 

 those exhibited at the great Miss. Valley 

 Fruit Exhibition, held in Sept. 1880, at the 

 St. Louis Merchants' Exchange, were so much 

 admired as to be honored with the premium 

 for " the best plate of grapes for the table, 11 and 

 there were over 200 varieties on exhibition ! 

 This created such a demand for plants of this 

 splendid variety that it was impossible for 

 several seasons to fill the orders. Samuel 

 Miller, of .Bluffton, Mo., writes that it is the 

 finest table grape we have for open air cultiva- 

 tion, and his vines of "Triumph" stood the 

 hard winter 1880-81 without injury. Yet we 

 cannot recommend it for general cultivation in 

 our variable climate, but only for those who 

 will give it proper care and attention. We 

 know of no grape more worthy of it than the 

 " Triumph." 



P. J. Berckmans, Augusta, Ga., writes us: 

 " Triumph is truly well named ; for four years 

 past it has proven to be the handsomest white 

 grape we have, and of very good quality." 



T. V. Munson, of Denison, Texas, pronounces 

 it a great acquisition to the grapes of the 

 south. "Had bunches weighing one-and-a-half 



! pounds each, fine as Golden Chasselas in qual- 

 | ity, vigorous and productive." One of these 

 j bunches was drawn from nature and painted 

 i by his sister, Miss M. T. Munson, an excel- 

 lent amateur artist, and kindly presented to 

 us. The annexed illustration is an exact copy, 

 slightly reduced in size, showing also partly 

 two leaves, one upper and the other lower 

 face. But, excellent as the engraving is 

 (which we had made for this Catalogue in the 

 celebrated art establishment of A. Blanc, at 

 Philadelphia), it can give but a faint idea of 

 the beauty of this most beautiful American 

 grape. The Triumph has lately also been 

 tested in France ; it succeeds there and pleases 

 very much, while the Concord, one of its 

 parents, does not succeed at all, and displeases 

 the French taste. 



T. V. Munson has a number of ye;rling 

 hybrids between Triumph and Herbemont, of 

 which he expects to get something fine for the 

 south. 



Uhland. (Riparia X) A seedling of Taylor, 

 grown by William Weidemeyer at Hermann, 

 Mo. Vine a strong grower; long-jointed, gray- 

 ish wood, with foliage resembling Taylor, but 

 less vigorous ; in some seasons of defective in- 

 florescence, in others abundantly productive 

 of excellent fruit, richer in sugar and flavor 

 than most other Taylor seedlings, thus making 

 a superior wine ; but also considered more 

 delicate, less robust, and requiring better soil 

 and culture to obtain best results. Bunch 

 medium, compact, sometimes shouldered ; 

 berry medium, slightly oblong, greenish-yel- 

 low in the shade, pale amber in the sun ; skin 

 thin, almost transparent, pulp tender, juicy, 

 very sweet, of fine flavor. Ripens a few days 

 after Concord. 



Ulster Prolific. (Labr. X) A new grape, origin- 

 ated by A. J. Caywood, of Marlboro, Ulster Co., N. Y.. 

 which attracted a great deal of attention at the meet- 

 ing of the Am. Pomol. Society just held (Sept. 1883) at 

 Philadelphia. The one branch there exhibited held 

 fifty bunches and weighed' twenty-two pounds. We 

 received no description from the originator, and he 

 does not offer any plants for sale. 



Una. (Labr.) A white seedling, raised by E. W. 

 Bull, the originator of the Concord. Not as good nor 

 as productive as Martha. Bunch and berry small, of 

 a very foxy flavor ; not desirable. 



But the more desirable is the 



Uno or Juno, a new grape which Geo. W. Camp- 

 bell has just favored us with. It is not yet to be sent 

 out, and we -do not know whether we are permitted to 

 say more than, that "it is really unii/ue, richer in 

 sweetness and better than any grape i/ou know"; and 

 that it seems to us a most valuable addition to our fine 

 table grapes and a new TRIUMPH for friend Campbell. 



