NINE] TONS OF GRAPES 
selectest list I have placed Worden. This grape is 
a positive marvel. it is a seedling of Concord, but, 
unlike that grape, it is sweet as soon as colored, 
while a Concord is sour until it has reached the 
stage of shiny blackness. The Worden may be 
classed as the very best early black, and Herbert as 
the best late black. Niagara is another magnifi- 
cent production, carrying its huge bunches, in pro- 
digious quantities, on vines that are remarkably 
healthy. Lindley and Brighton are incomparably 
fine among the red grapes, but each has its draw- 
backs. Lindley is very long-jointed, and not a per- 
fect self-pollenizer; in fact, quite defective, while 
Brighton is the poorest self-pollenizer in the whole 
list. Large vineyards of this grape were planted in 
the Hudson valley, and were plowed out by the in- 
dignant owners before they found that it needed 
a good neighbor, like Worden. Goertner is a 
much better self-pollenizer, but not quite perfect. 
I should include Diamond in my list of the very 
best varieties, if it were not so irregular in its date 
of ripening, and, when ripe, were not so variable in 
quality, while to this we must add that the vine is 
unusually susceptible to disease. For running 
headlong over rocks, and climbing over arbors, 
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