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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, FLORAL PARK, 
CAMPBELL’S 
EARLY. 
NcW Grapes. 
Everyone who has a bare fence, wall or outbuilding, or a 
few feet of vacant ground, can plant a few Grape vines and 
reap an annual harvest of luscious fruit. Owners of country 
places, or even of city lots, need never be without an abund¬ 
ant supply of Grapes in season. There is no fruit that yields 
a more'prompt or generous return. Evervbodv can grow it 
and everybody should have it in abundance. The following 
sorts are the very cream of the hundreds of varieties which 
are before the public: they are mostly varieties of recent in¬ 
troduction and of improved quality. 
Nectar or Black Delaware— The Nectar has more good 
qualities for the home garden than any other variety we 
know, of recent introduction. Being so remarkablv free 
from mildew and rot. it is not easily affected by unfavor¬ 
able climatic conditions. It ripens with Moore’s Early 
and can be left hanging to the vine till frozen without its 
quality being in the least impaired—in fact improves every 
day. A good strong grower and large annual cropper. 
The fruit is black with heavy blue bloom-qualitv the very 
best, pulp tender and skin tough and will hang a long 
time after gathering without dropping from the bunch. 
Berries larger than Delaware, but with the same unsur¬ 
passed flavor. No Grape will give greater satisfaction in 
all parts of the countrv. 
Campbell’s Early— Points of special merit in Campbell’s 
Early Grape are: A very strong, vigorous, hardy vine 
with thick, healthy, mildew-resisting foliage, and perfect 
self-fertilizing blossoms: always setting its fruit well, and 
bearing abundantly. Clusters very large, usually 
shouldered, compact and handsome, without being un¬ 
duly crowded. Berries large, nearly round, often an inch 
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no foxiness, coarseness or unpleasant acidity from the 
skin to the center. Flesh rather Arm but tender and of 
equal consistency, parting easily from its few and small 
seeds. As more than one-third of the people do not and 
will not swallow grape seeds, we consider this a strong 
point in favor. Its season is very early; often showing 
color late in July, and ripening, in Ohio, according to the 
season, from the fifteenth of August. It has very remark¬ 
able keeping qualities. Has hung upon the vines this fail 
sound and perfect, for six weeks or more after ripening 
with no tendency to shell off or fall from the stem. A few 
crates were put in a cool cellar 
Oct. 5th this year and are now 
(Dec. 20 th) apparently as perfect 
as when stored and looking as 
though they may keep in 
equally good condition until 
next April, As a good keeper and shipper it is be¬ 
lieved to be unequalled by any other Grape. 
IV!cPike— This mammoth production, which we ex¬ 
amined. together with its grand leaf, was originated by H. 
G. McPike, in Ill. He has been seeking, if possible, to find 
a better grape from every point than tlie Concord; one that 
would be wholly reliable and furnish annually untold tons 
of superior fruit. He has worked with the Alton Agri¬ 
cultural Society for thirty years with this object particu¬ 
larly in view. Now it is accomplished, the grape is here. 
The general character of the Concord is given to its seed¬ 
ling, tlie “Worden,” with its extra hardiness, good leaf, 
increased quality of blue-black fruit and bloom upon the 
berry. This is the first step forward. The 1 McPike is a 
seedling of the Worden, and partakes of all the good 
qualities of these two grapes to a marked degree. 
Perfectly hardy, with a leaf unprecedented; it is earlier 
than the Concord, bunches large, even and compact; 
berries even in size, covered with a beautiful bloom, blue- 
black in color: ripens uniformly, and lias generally the 
appearance of the Worden. The berries are of mammoth 
size, being three inches in circumference and of superb 
quality, by far the best grape grown. 
Lu P l > 1 ®—The “Lucile” originated on the grounds of J. A. 
Putnam & Son, of New York, about 1888. It is a purely 
native variety, and apparently a seedling of the Wyoming 
Bed, with which it has much in common—as color, quality 
season, health, hardiness and appearance of leaf and 
wood; but the vine grows to twice the size of Wyoming 
Bed, and yields triple the fruit in both size and quantity. 
The Lucile ripens early, between Moore’s Early and 
Worden, and is of a beautiful bright red color; large and 
compact as Worden and of nearly the same shape. Its 
skin is thin but tough, and is therefore a good shipper, 
IP never drops its. berries; is sweet, though not equal to 
the Brighton or Delaware in quality, yet better than 
Moore’s Early. Its flesh and flavor is very mucli like that 
of Wyoming Bed. The Lucile is a most vigorous grower 
and enormous bearer, equal to the Niagara in this respect. 
But it ripens up all its wood to the tips under a load of 
Iruit. It has never been known to winter-kill, and is 
probably as hardy as any variety in America. It has never 
been attacked by the downy mildew or any other disease. 
The Lucile is exceedingly productive and will, one season 
with another, yield as m any tons to the acre as either the 
Concord, Worden or Niagara. We recommend it for 
both amateur and market culture. The Lucile is a grand 
good grape for the extreme North, where early, extra 
hardy varieties are needed and appreciated. 
Price of these 4 (/rand new Grapes, 50c. each. One of each 
for $1.50; 3 of each for ,$U.oo. 
