[Extract of letter from Judge Samuel Miller, the Veteran Horticulturist of Missouri, 
in Vick’s Monthly, December, 1887.] 
“ The Diamond Grape.” 
“ It pleases me to see in the last number of your excellent mag- 
azine, the way in which you describe the above grape. If your 
readers will refer back a year or two, they will see that our ideas 
agree on its merits. I consider it, to-day, the finest white hardy 
grape in the country. Those who have a vineyard of Concords, the 
fruit of which brings them three cents per pound, would make a 
nice thing of it by grafting it over with the Diamond.” 
[From the Horticultural Art Journal, January 15, 1887.] 
“ Moore’s Diamond.” 
“The vine is a vigorous grower, with large, dark foliage, ripen- 
ing its wood, which has stood without any protection through our 
severe Western New York winters. It is a prolific bearer, produc- 
ing bunches fully equal to that shown in the engraving. The quality 
is fir.st-rate, superior to many others now before the public. * * * 
We have a friend who is well acquainted with this vine and its his- 
tory, and asking him what fault the Moore's Diamond had, he 
answered that he was unable to name any. 
We hear good reports of it from all sections, and hope it will 
sustain the wide-spread reputation it has acquired” 
[From the Horticultural Art Journ;il, September, 1888.] 
'■'■Moore's Diamond." In company with some twenty-five of 
the leading Nurserymen and Fruit Growers of this section, we had 
an opportunity of examining a small jjlantation of this variety, 
including the original vine. We found the vines overloaded with 
large, compact and hand.some bunches, of e.xcellent quality, 
fully sustaining our opinion as before expre.s.sed. We regard this, 
all things considered, as the best white grape we have seen this 
season. ’ ’ 
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