Golden Gem. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Haskell’s Seedlings. 103 
Golden Berry. (Hybr.) A white seedling of the 
Hartford te and Gen. Marmora, originated by Dr. 
Culbert, Newburg, N. Y.; hardy and a free bearer. 
Exhibited 1877. We ¢ disseminated. 
Golden Gem. (Hybr.) A seedling of the Dela- 
ware and Iona, asuperbtable grape, of golden color, 
produced by J. H. Ricketts; first exhibited at the Am. 
Pomological Society meeting in 1881, and first o 
for sale in the autumn of 1882. Vine moderately vig- 
orous; wood s peggrooms are leaf small to es grere 
slightly serrated ; + small and sometimes shoul- 
ered ; berry silk aa and of a rich golden aie: flesh 
deetiar, j juicy and rich, with a fine rose flavor; quality 
be y,even Hartford 
Prolific, and continues a long time in use without 
losing any of its good qualities. Wherever —— of its 
‘parents | ts, the Delaware or the Iona, ccessfully 
grown, this superior novelt ty ip 
and trial. 
Graham (?). An eR seedling, introduced 
by Wm malas of Philad nch of medium 
size, not co ; berry diameter, 
round, aie thickly covered with ees ease con- 
tains little or no pulp, and abounds in of agrea- 
ble flavor. A poor grower and tiie 2 tenn 
Grein’s Seedlings. A lot of Taylor Seedlings 
raised by Nicholas Grein, near Hermann, Mo., 
and by him sup to have been pro- 
duced from seed “ the European Riesling 
which he had sown 
No. 1—MissourRi ——- Vine hardy and 
very healthy; a moderate grower, names 
tively short-jointed ; with healthy, thick 
countitis now largely planted by the wine- 
growers of Missouri and Illinois. Ripens 
ten days after the Concord. Subject to rot 
larger 
Tayior scodlings, of a deep 
beonay Sewers 6 Oe ee 
No. bling 
tomake avery fn wine of dep golden 
eolor and delightful flavor. 
* Pronounce: Keesling. — 
No. 7, or Grein’s extra early, Vine a vigor- 
and 
a pa but not in color, which herein is a 
tiful greenish-yellow, with a distinct 
star-like speck on each berry. Ripening 
about same time as Concord. 
is well-known, and generally planted as a very 
prolific early market variety ; ripens here early 
in August, about ten days in advance of the 
Concord ; but as soon as ripe if generally drops 
flesh pulpy, juicy, _ a perceptible foxy fla- 
vor; roots ve dant, branching and 
fibrous, of i ty praeserea and toughness, 
and tolerably firm liber. Canes stout, with 
Wine has also been made from it, but it could 
not be recommended by us for that purpose. 
Only as a market grape is it considered valu- 
able by some, on account of its earliness and 
great productiveness, but even as such it is 
ral ot 
grape-growers discard the 
only destroys the appetite for grapes, and thus 
injures the sale and price of all sorts; while a 
really good very early market grape would in- 
crease the demand for all later varieties. 
be and®Pigeon), and had not been tested 
Amber-fox 
aptasreier very few of them have been been distrib- 
uted. 
Our proposition to take five of these two 2 
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