LUTHER BURBANK 



Sultanina. It is an extremely productive, light 

 colored, strong growing, yellowish-white grape 

 which has to be pruned longer than most others 

 of the vinifera class in order to get big crops 

 which it produces imder ordinary vineyard cid- 

 tivation in California. 



Sultanina and another called Sultana are 

 grapes of medium size but absolutely seedless. 

 They are put up in great quantities in California 

 as seedless raisins, and are displacing the dried 

 grapes of Corinth or so-called Zanta currants so 

 extensively imported from Greece and Turkey — 

 to which they are greatly superior. 



Among these seedling Syrian grapes there is 

 one early and productive class, absolutely new to 

 California growers. Most of the Syrian grapes 

 are noticeably different in several particulars 

 from the other grapes of Europe and northern 

 Africa. 



The stems are more slender, the peduncles 

 quite small, yet strong and wiry, the bunches are 

 very pleasing in form, the grapes usually being 

 set full and all of one size, and the bimches are 

 not usually so crowded as those of many varie- 

 ties of the common grape. The seeds also are 

 very small — almost absent. Yet all of the varie- 

 ties among this lot of twelve or more produce 

 some seeds, with the exception of the Thompson's 



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