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Vox,. XXXIX. No 
Whole No. 1606. 
Price Five Cents 
$2.00 Peb Teas. 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 1880. by the Rural New-Yorker. In the office of the Librarian of Congees at Washington.] 
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THE JEFFERSON GRAPE. 
Mb. Ricketts’s grapes are quite dissimilar in 
fappearance and flavor. A complete collection 
would seem to supply all that the lover of 
grapes could desire, if only such a collection 
could he made to thrive in the same locality, 
which we presume will rarely, if ever, prove 
to be the case. The Jefferson is now offered 
for sale by Mr. J. G. Burrow, of Fishkill. 
Duchess County, N. Y., who controls the entire 
stock. Our engraving is a true reproduction 
of an average size bunch which was sent to 
this office by Mr. Burrow, not knowing it was 
to be drawn and engraved. We have a speci¬ 
men vine of the Jefferson at the Rural 
Grounds, which ha3 not yet fruited or, indeed, 
made a very strong growth. In other places, 
however, we hear it has grown vigorously. 
Mr. Charles Downing, at our request, gives his 
opinion of this grape, which is as follows:— 
Jefferson. —One of James H. Ricketts’s 
Seedlings—a cross between Concord and Iona; 
vine a vigorous grower, rather short- jointed ; 
leaves, large, thick and downy; bunch, large, 
sometimes very large, shouldered, very pro¬ 
ductive; shoulders, often double, compact; 
berry, medium large, roundish-oval ; skin, 
THE JEFFERSON GRAPE.— Drawn from Life.— Fig. 384. 
