THE GENEVA GRAPE. 
In introducing a new white grape, we fully appreciate the responsibility that we 
assume. There are already several good white grapes, and we should not introduce a 
new sort if we did not believe that we had secured a variety combining more good points 
than any white grape now known. With many varieties of fruits appearance has been 
considered rather than quality, but in the Geneva we have the happy combination of good 
quality and great beauty. 
The vine in growth and foliage resembles one of its parents, the old Black Fox grape, 
which leads us to believe that it will succeed where any grape will grow. 
The cluster is medium to large in size, compact, while the berries are large and hang 
firmly to the stem; the skin is thick; the flesh meaty and of good quality. 
Its color is a transparent green, covered with a fine, distinct bloom, most other white 
grapes looking rusty and dull in comparison. 
It ripens with the Concord, but can be picked and marketed before it is ripe, and in 
this shape will please the purchasers, while if allowed to hang on the vine after it ripens 
it improves in quality and richness. It is also a good keeper. 
Those planting a grape for their own eating will never tire of this, while those who 
plant for profit unquestionably will find in the Geneva a grape combining all the quali- 
ties necessary for a profitable variety. 
We regard it as of material value that the Geneva is not a chance seedling, but the re- 
sult of a careful system of cross-fertilization, making it in the truest sense a pedigree 
grape. "Blood will tell" and does tell in the Geneva. 
Furthermore, It is no small recommendation that this grape was bred by that most pains- 
taking originator of new fruits, Mr. Jacob Moore, to whom we owe the Brighton. 
Perhaps the best proof of our faith fn the Geneva is the fact of our having bought the 
entire stock from the originator, that we might have the honor of naming and introducing 
it. In naming it after our beautiful town on the shore of the lovely Seneca Lake (made 
famous in verse by Goldsmith) we feel that we are complimenting the town quite as much 
as the grape. 
ITS PEDIGREE AND HISTORY. 
The originator states that the grape that we have now named Geneva was produced 
the first cross:— seed of the wild Black Fox grape, fertilized with Muscat Alexandria; 
that one of the progeny was a red grape, very large both in bunch and berry; this hybrid 
he recrossed with Iona; that the seedlings of this second cross receded to a certain extent 
to the original parent stem, No. 22 (the Geneva), having thick, woolly leaves and the con- 
stitution of the Black Fox; that while the Geneva seemed to have the constitution of the 
native, it was one of the best of the lot in quality of fruit; that in the winter of 1884 it 
had a peculiarly hard test, being fully exposed, and passed the winter uninjured; that 
bearing vines of the Brighton at the distance of about fifty rods were badly injured, while 
Isabella and Catawba in the same vineyard were killed to the ground, or nearly so. He 
says: — " I feel warranted in calling it an 'Ironclad.' 
S. D. Williard, a practical fruit grower of Geneva, says: — " I am glad to learn that 
you are to have the honor of disseminating the new white grape, Geneva. I have had the 
pleasure of eating this fruit for two seasons, and cheerfully bear testimony to its very fine 
quality. I know of no white grape of recent introduction so rich and pleasing to my 
taste, and I am of the opinion that such will be the response from all. We have here in 
the Geneva a hardy, outdoor, white grape that should be in every collection of choice fruits. " 
Bev. John Wicks, of Attica, New York, says: — "I think you will not regret the pur- 
chase of the new grape. I have watched the vine, and seen the fruit two years. I do not 
see why it should not stand as high on the list as any grape now grown, in all respects." 
