Prentiss. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 
Purity. 131 
Branch 20 inches. Weighing 7 
oe Exhibired. at meeting of 
Am, Pom, Society, Rochester, N. Y. 
P. J. Berckmans, on the other hand, consid- 
ers it worthless in his locality. writes us: 
It may do well north, but is so far of no value 
here’’ (in Augusta, Ga.) 
It was first exhibited at the New York State 
THE PRENTISS. 
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fair held in Rochester in 1877, and has been © 
justly awarded First premiums at various 
exhibitions every year since. From what we 
have seen and heard of this new grape, we 
vorite among grape-growers, for mark 
family use, wherever the Concord is success- 
ully grown. 
fi 
“The Pocklington, in size and beauty, is an © 
roach to the Canon Hall or other Mus- 
cats.— Marshall P. Wilder 
See the chromo-lithograph ee op- - commen 
posite the title page.) 
Prentiss. (Zabr.) One of one best native — 
wae _ tell, as it has not been sufficiently tested, and 
sembling the latter. ie 
shouldered, compact. aay 
: macaeate to oval skin i very thin, but very 
From a Photogra 
G. Wi Golfey 
ochester, 
N.Y 
tish bloom; seeds few, small, dark; flesh with 
a slight pulp, tender, juicy, sweet and pleasant; 
a musky aroma, free coarse foxiness ; 
fruit very similar to Rebecca, and Hubbard 
himself ‘‘thought it had traces of Rebecca 
blood init.’’? The berries adhere well to the pe- 
duncle and keep well. Ripens at same time as 
Concord. A Psp teens — profitable market 
grape wh s. Selling in large — 
tities at 15 cents per emery in New York mar 
_ kets when Concords were selling at 4 to 6 cts. 
T.S. Hubbard, Fredonia, N. Y., who intro- 
_ duced this grape, says: * We do not expect it 
will succeed everywhere, nor do we claim it to 
be a grape that will succeed over as wide a 
_ range of territory as the Concord, but we re- 
“| als in this section. 
d it as 4 VERY PROFITABLE market 
grape for good grape localities.’’ 
How it will sueceed in vinéyards of the lower 
Missouri and Mississippi valleys we cann 
its parentage does not encourage extensive tri- 
Testimonials as to the 
growth and health of this variety are, so far, 
_ favorable. 
The annexed beautiful chromo-lithograph of 
_ the Prentiss was furnished us for t this Iilustra- 
quality. 
| have See feline than the Delaware 
— pra ‘sometimes with » slight rosy tint on | an that variety. Camp- 
“praca — to the _ with a thin whi- — 
ted a by Mr. Hubbard. 
ss upon Delaware, produced by 
d, . 
‘| Geo. W. Campbe, is a small white grape of the finest 
ed to be a stronger grower and to ~ 
- ripens 
its fruit a few days earlier 
bell gave it that name on account of the smd of its: 
