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compact; berry largo, globular, yellowish, with tough skin. Flesh 

 juicy, sweet; quality very gO(jd. A cross Ijetween Norton and Martha, 

 much prized in the South. Texas. 



Golden Gem. — Bunch medium in size, roundish, shouldered, quite 

 compact; berries small, round; color rich golden, with delicate white 

 bloom. Flesh light green, half tender, juicy, veiy sweet; quality 

 very good to best. A cross of Delaware and lona too small for 

 market but delicious for home use where the Delaware proves jn'ofita- 

 ble. New York. Hybrid. 



Greins Golden. — Bunch medium, with long stem, com])act, regular; 

 berry large as Concord, round, lorownish yellow, very juicy, free from 

 foxiness, cjuite acid; ciuality good. A probable cross of Riparia and 

 Labrusoa. Missouri. 



Hartford. — Bunch long, fairly compact, shouldered; berry me- 

 dium to large, round; color black, with blue bloom. Flesh wliitish< 

 vinous, juicy, good. An old variety tliat has made slow commercial 

 progress on account of dropping its fruit. Connecticut. Labrusca. 



Hayes. — launch medium, roundish, shouldered, compact; berries 

 medium, round; color greenish white, or at the West yellow amber, 

 w'itli dense whitish bloom. Flesh juicy, subacid, vinous, with rather 

 tough center; quality very good. Season, earlier than Concord. 

 Gro'\'\m mostly in the Eastern, Southern, and Mountain States. Massa- 

 chusetts. Labrusca. 



Herbemont. — fJunch large, heavy, compact, shouldered ; berry 

 below medium, l.)lack, with blue bloom; skin filled with sweet, rich, 

 aromatic juice, with but trifling show of pul]). A Southern variety 

 widely grown for home dessert use and wine-making. Origin, un- 

 certain. 



Herbert {Rogers' No. 44). — Bunch medium to large, roundisli, 

 shouldered, quite compact; berry large, round; color l>lack, with 

 blue bloom. Flesh greeni.sh, juicy, tender, pleasantly flavored; 

 seeds large. Needs mixed planting. Quite widely grown. .Massa- 

 chusetts. Hybrid. 



Highland. — Bunch large, long, shouldered, rather loose; l)erry 

 large, round, black, with blue bloom. Flesh greenish white, juicy, 

 sweet, tender, good. Season, quite late, A favorite in Maryland 

 and west to South Missouri. New York. Hybrid. 



Ideal. — Bunch medium to large, compact, \isually shouldered; 

 berry large, round, bright wine-red in color. Flesh tender, juicj^, 



