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SUNSET SEED AND PLANT COMPANY 
Grapes— Foreign Wine Varieties— continued 
Johann isberg Rieslingr— The most celebrated grape of the Rhine, producing the celebrated Hock Wines. 
Uunches medium size, compact ; berries rather small and round ; skin thin : flesh tender and juicy, sweet and 
highly flavored. i J> 
Mondeuse— Bunches large and long, pyramidal, shouldered ; berries medium, black ; a heavy bearer and 
produces a good wine with a great amount of tannin. This grape is also called the Gros Syrah. 
Palomino — An abundant and regular bearer, making a good white wine. Bunch large, rather loose : 
berry full medium, pale green, with yellowish tinge ; juicy and sweet. 
Saaviguon Blanc — A Sauterne variety. Bunches small, compact, cylindrical; berries medium, slightly 
eliptical. Produces a wine of high quality. Vine a good bearer. Ihe celebrated Chateau Yquem wine is made 
irom this grape and the Semillon, with the addition of a small amount of Eaisinotte. The proportions used 
are: two-thirds Semillon, one-third Sauvignon, and about five per cent. Raisinotte. 
Zinfandel — Bunches large, compact ; berries round, dark purple, covered with a heavy bloom. A valuable 
claret wine grape. Succeeds well in most any climate. 
Grapes — American Varieties 
Price— 15c. each, $1.00 per 10, $6.00 per 100 
Catawba — Bunches medium size : berries large, coppery color, covered with a thin, lilac bloom : iuicy. 
sweet and musky. ^ > ^ i > t ji 
Concnrd— Bunches compact, rather large; berries large, globular, almost black, covered with a fine bloom, 
juicy, sweet and pleasant. 
Delaware — One of the best of American Grapes Bunches medium, compact ; berries medium, round, 
beautiful light red ; pulp sweet and tender ; juice abundant, rich and vinous. 
Diana— Medium size, round, pale red, with thin lilac bloom; flesh tender, sweet and juicy, with a strong 
musk flavor. Vigorous and productive. 
Isabella— A strong growing variety, specially adapted for arbors ; bunches good size, somewhat loose ; 
berries quite large, oval, black, covered with a blue bloom ; juicy, sweet, and rich, with a slight musky aroma. 
Moore's Early— Probably the most valuable early grape yet produced, combining hardiness, size, beauty, 
quality, productiveness and earliness among its^desirable qualities. Bunch large ; berry large, round, black. 
THE PIERCE 
A sport from the Isabella. The foliage is remarkably large, and the vine an exceedingly strong grower, 
as well as prolific bearer. Some clusters weigh as much as 40 pounds. Berries very large ; black with light 
bloom ; when ripe, exceedingly sweet, delicious and slightly aromatic. It is a capital shipper, and brings a 
good price in the San Francisco market. 
Price— SSc. each, $%.00 per 10, 
Riparia— Muchjused for grafting on, because never aflTected with phylloxera. 
Price— $3.00 per 100, $16.00 per.lOOO 
Small Fruits 
Currants 
Price— I0o.;each, $1.00 per{10, $6.00 per 100 
Black Grape— Much resembles Ogden Black, but the plant is perhaps a stronger and more rigorous 
grower. 
Cherry— Fruit of the largest size ; bunches shorty berries large, deep red. A valuable market sort. 
Fay's Prolific- This new currant continues to maintain all the claims made for it. It is as large as the 
Cherry, more uniform, fruit less acid, fully as productive, and decidedly earlier. 
Goiidolu Red— Bunches very long, more so than Red Dutch, and berries larger, brighter red, and rather 
more acid than it; of rapid and unusually tall grc.wtli. This and the preceding variety, although not so large 
as the Cherry currant, are much better adapted to the hot interior localities than the latter variety. 
White Dutch— Bunches long; berries yellowish white, nearly transparent ; very sweet and agreeable. 
Sometimes used for making Currant wine. 
White Grape— Bunches moderately long; berries very large, whitish yellow, sweet and good. The finest 
of the white sorts. 
Gooseberries — American 
Price- 20c.|each,|$1.60 perllO, $10.00li>ur 100 
Downing- An upright, vigorous grower; fruit good size, roundish oval, whitish green; skin smooth, flesh 
soft, juicy and. very good. 
Houghton's Seedling — A vigorous grower ; fruit medium size, roundish, inclining to oval ; skin smooth, 
pale red; flesh tender, sweet and good. Entirely free from mildew. 
Smith's Improved — A strong, upright grower; fruit light green, sweet and excellent. Very productive, 
and not apt to mildew. 
