"A THING WILL FETCH ITS WORTH." 
"Moore's Early." 
New $60.00 Prize Grape. 
VERY HARDY, VERY EARLY, FINE QUALITY, NEVER MILDEWS. 
THE BEST EARLY BLACK CRAPE. 
Winner of a first-class Certificate of Merit. The -f 60.00 Prize 
for the best new .needling. 
Thirty First Prizes. Two Silver Medals. 
A New Hardy Grape, combining the following desirable qualities, viz : 
Hardiness, size, beauty, quality, productiveness and earliness, maturing ten days 
earlier than the Hartford Prolific, and twenty days before the Concord. 
The $60.00 Prize offered by tlie Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the 
best new seedling, after a satisfactory trial, was awarded to John B. Moore, for 
the new seedling — Moore's Early. 
Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President American Pomological Society, says: 
"In regard to Moore's E.^rly Grape, I have to say that it appears to be 
quite equal in vigor, productiveness and quality, with the Concord, and was the 
last season, the earliest variety in my collection of forty varieties, being more 
thoroughly and evenly colored than the Champion, which I had before considered 
the earliest. 
" John B. Moore, sent si.\ bunches of his new Moore's Early Grape to the 
editor of the Farm Journal, to be placed on exhibition at the Pennsylvania State 
Fair. We never saw finer bunches of black out-door Grapes, nor as fine. ' ' — Farm 
Journal, Philadelphia, Nov. 1879. 
" As previously noticed in this column, the writer planted out in the Spring 
of 1878, a one year old vine of Moore's Early Grape. One vine has. fruited 
this year. The bunch is large, berry round, large (as large as the Wilder, or 
Rodgers No 4), color'black, with a heavy blue bloom; quality better tlian the 
Concord. The vine is exceedingly hardy. There is no sign of mildew or other 
disease on vine or berry, while many of our other varieties ar» somewhat affected. 
Our fruit was fully ripe on the first of September. The Hartfords were ten days 
later, and the Concords will not be ready for eating before the 20th of September. 
The writer has fifteen varieties, but this beats them all for earliness." — New 
Bedford Evening Standard, Sep. 10, 1879. 
At a meeting of the Chatauqua County Horticultural Society, held at Dun- 
kirk, New York, December 1st, 1880, a vote being taken for the best four grapes 
to plant for profit, r«sulted in the Moore's Early being one of the four receiving 
the highest number of votes. 
