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in nearly all the States of the Union. But different parts 

 of the United States present such varied soil and air con- 

 ditions that about all the highest developed varieties of 

 the world find with us congenial conditions. In California 

 such exquisite table grapes as the Flame, Tokay, Emperor, 

 Black Hamburg, Chasselas, Verdal, and Thompson's 

 seedling are grown to perfection, and in the hot, dry 

 valley at Fresno, and in the Salt Kiver valley of Arizona, 

 such raisin grapes as White Muscat, Sultana, Thompson's 

 seedling and other choice varieties are grown in immense 

 quantity. The importance of the raisin interests can be 

 estimated by the fact that 103,000,000 pounds of raisins 

 were produced in 1894. It is also suggestive that one 

 thousand car-loads of table grapes have reached the 

 Eastern States from the west coast in a single year. The 

 w r ine-grape interest has also been developed on the west 

 coast to an extent not reached at any other point in 

 America. In the South the highly developed varieties of 

 the vinifera type grown on the west coast are not a success, 

 and the development of the native species by Munson and 

 others is in the experimental stage. As yet the varieties 

 grown for the Northern market for dessert use are such as 

 Concord, Worden, Moore's Early, Ives, Moore's Diamond, 

 Delaware, Niagara, Lindley, and a few others. The dessert 

 variety that finds most favor in the North as put up by 

 Southern growers is the Delaware. 



But farther south a new era is dawning in dessert-grape 

 culture. Some of the hybrids produced by crossing the 

 best European varieties with the best Southern native 

 species have been .tested, such as Brilliant, Gold Coin, 

 Muench, Superb, and Eden. When some of the best of 

 these recently developed varieties become commercial, they 

 will be favorites in the Northern markets, as they have the 

 tender, juicy, sprightly texture peculiar to the Delaware, 



