SELECT GRAPES. 
PhE soil for the Grape should lie dry and wurm, thoroughly drained, deeidy worked, and well 
manured, always bearing in mind that a sunny exi)osure is desirable — a sloi)e to the .south 
■ • ■' ' ■ If a northern incline must be had, only the hardy, early ripening sorts should 
or e;ist is the best, 
be planted. 
LIST OF LEADING GRAPES. 
Agawam. See Rogers' No. If). 
Brighton. Red. Season early. Its re- 
markable hariiiness of vine, large and com- 
pact bunch, delicate skin, almost seedless pulp, 
and rich Havor, are qualities that make the 
Berries of Campbell's Early are large, nearly 
round, often an inch or more in diameter ; black, 
light puri)le bloom. Skin thin, very tenacious, 
handling and sliipidng admirably. Flavor rich, 
sweet, slightly vinous ; pure, with no foxiness, 
coarseness or unpleasant 
acidity from the skin to 
the center. Flesh rather 
firm but tender and of equal 
consistency, jjarting easily 
from its few and small 
seeds. 
It has very remai'kable 
keeping qualities. Has 
hung upon the vines, sound 
and jierfect, for six week.s 
or more after ripening, 
with no tendency to shell 
olf orfidl from the stems. A 
few clusters were jmt in 
cold storage on September 
Brighton a most desirable sort. 
It has thick, large foliage, and 
is thus enabled to stand the 
heat of summer. Being a vigor- 
ous grower, it exhibits e.xtreme 
hardiness, and is enaliled to en- 
dure the winter in colder sec- 
tions. Valuable both as a family 
Grape and for vineyard purposes. 
Berries above the medium size to 
large; color usually of a red when 
first ripe, and changing to a 
reddish purple if allowed to hang 
long on the vine, covered with a blue bloom. 
Fruit keeps well for an early Grajie, either on 
or off the vine. 
Campbell's Early. Black. From middle 
to last of August here. The vine is of strong, 
hardy, vigorous growth; the foliage thick, 
heavy and jjerfectly healthy, bears abundantly 
of large handsome clusters. The fruit ripens 
very early, and is of excellent quality ; is a 
remarkably good keeper and a good shipper. 
A bunch of the Camiibell's Early sent to the 
United States Department of Agriculture, 
Washington, D. C, grown in 189G, weighed 19 
ounces. 
Campbell's Early. 
1.5 and taken out December 1.5, apparently as 
perfect as when stored, and seeming as though 
they might have been kept in good condition 
until spring. A good keeper and shipper. 
The Rural New Yorker, of October 9, 1897, 
prints : 
"A second vine of Campbell's Early Grape 
was received from the introducer in the fall of 
189.'). It bore one bunch only, and this ou a 
branch not over (} in(;hes above the soil. It was 
bagi/ed when the berries were the si'/e of tlio 
earliest peas, and the bag was not removed un- 
til September 21. The berries and bnucli were 
absolutely jji^rfect. Every berry was the size 
of every other berry, and all of them the size 
of the finest Concords. This is a most valua- 
ble characteristic of this splendid Grape— ual' 
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