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Clinton. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Concord. 83 
est vines to keep under control; it requires a 
great deal of room and spur-pruning on old 
wood to bring forth its best results. Being one 
of the first to bloom in spring, it suffers some- 
times from late frosts. 
The leaf of the Clinton is in some seasons 
quite infested by the gall-louse (the Gallicola 
form of the Phylloxera), but its root enjoys a 
remarkable immunity from the puncture of 
this inagaaleo insect. The root-lice are found 
m, sometimes abundantly, but the vine 
does not gars therefrom, while European 
vines by their side are quite destroyed. The 
largely used there for several years, until the 
Taylor and, even more so, certain types of 
wild Riparia were found better adapted. 
L. Giraud, Pres’t of the Syndicat Pomerol. 
(Gironde), writes May 4, 1883: ‘‘ My grafts of 
1876, on the poor decried Clinton, give promise 
this year also of the most satisfactory returns. 
makes it a bad neighbor for our French vines.”’ 
The fact that Clintons, even when teeming 
with Phylloxera, are comparatively free from 
mildew and rot, while other varieties much 
less infected by the insect suffer either by rot 
or mildew, and some even by both, refutes the 
theory that these diseases might be caused by 
the Phylloxera. 
Roots thin and wiry, but very tough, witha 
hard, smooth liber, rapidly forming new fibers, 
rather slender, but long and rambling, witha 
full complement of laterals and strong tendrils. 
Wood rather soft sa with a large pith. 
akes a fair, dark red wine, resembling 
elaret, but of oni disagreeable taste, 
which, however, improves with age; must 93° 
98° and sometimes exceeding 100°. 
Vialla. (Rip.) By some sone to be 
identical with F) that the foliage of the 
Vialla is larger an a darker, and tl that it is more produc- 
tive and of a som: oak aed better lity. is not known 
here at all, but it is esteemed in France as a superior 
grafting stock. 
Cle Black. - Hybrid raised by Ja- 
cob Moore, from Diana, crossed by Black Hamburg. 
Bunches large, compact, shouldered; berries 
Meck,’ with a dark violet bloom; flesh ten- 
vigorous. Ripens with 
ae — Mag. 
“ing. oe 
- mainly for 
Clever-street Hea. Same origin as the preced- 
Diana, loose, occasion- 
ally with a similar long stalk or shoulder sppended to 
the top; berries large, roun son when 
fully ripe, with a slight Diana flavor. vine a: a strong 
grower. Ripens with Diana.—Hovey’s Mag. 
Coe. The Coe grape originated in Washington Co., 
Iowa. G. B. Brackett, chairman fruit committee, con- 
siders it as nea to the Latn kpess a type, and kindly 
“Vine a ike «cs hes grower; withstands the 
res age: of our climate well; it may be called an 
-clad; canes rather short- jointed, with healthy, 
auraths eae Bunches 
than juicy. Ripens a week to ten days sae Concord. 
While berry and are smaller t oe 
the berries of the Coe are sweet veg do crack 
nor drop pees. arackeet considers it pate 
Columbia. (Rip.) This grape is said to have been 
but pleasant and vinous; ripe last of September.— 
Downing. 
Coneord, (Zadr.) This most popular Ameri- 
ean grape originated with E. W. Bull, Con- 
cord, Mass., who exhibited it for the first time 
on the 20th of Sept., 1853, at the 25th annual 
exhibition of the — aneramane Horticultural 
Society, on Boston Comm 
Bunch large, ick rather compact; 
berries large, globular, black, thickly covered 
witha bea 
to be r 
stout, above average hardness in texture, with 
medium liber, readily pushing new fibers un- 
der the attacks of Phylloxera. One of the best 
resistants among the Labrusca class, ¢ ana ¥ — 
ern France, ‘but proving ill-suited to some lo- 
shat generally 
ealities in climate it was soon 
being much preferred as stocks for grafting. 
Canes of —— thickness, long, rambling, 
with numerous and well developed laterals. 
