GRAPES 
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WORDEN CONCORD BRIGHTON CAMPBELL’S EARLY 
Grapes for Vineyards and Home Use 
Grape Vines should be planted where they will have 
the sunshine to grow the vine and to properly ripen the 
berries, thus developing the sugar content of the fruit, 
as they respond beautifully to warmth. To get the best 
results plant so they will get the sun from the south or 
the east. Dry warm soil is what the vine craves. No 
grounds are so small but that at least a few grape vines 
can be grown permitting you to enjoy luscious home¬ 
grown Grapes from your own planting. 
Grape Vines may be considered as ornamental vines 
and planted along fences or trained on garages, wood¬ 
sheds and other places for their ornamental appearance. 
Commercially the Grape is profitable—fruit is a good 
shipper—has many home uses, delicious and refreshing 
for table use, for pies, for sauces, jelly; and Grape juices 
are most valuable for refreshing and healthful drinks; 
there is an increasing demand and at profitable prices 
for the fruit, or fruit juices. 
Agawam, Dark Red. Qualities commending it are 
large size of bunch and berry, rich, sweet, aromatic 
flavor, attractive appearance, excellent keeping quali¬ 
ties, vigorous of vine and of self-fertilization. Aga¬ 
wam is highly esteemed in many markets and in mak¬ 
ing grape juice it is much sought for chiefly because 
of the flavor it imparts. It ripens in September, soon 
after Concord. Fine keeper, in fact, is frequently kept 
in storage until January, Berries are large, dark and 
dull purplish red. Flesh is pale green, solid and slight¬ 
ly vinous. 
Brighton, Red. Ranks as one of the ten leading com¬ 
mercial varieties. Its good points are: high quality, 
handsf)me apj)earance, certainty of ripening, vigorous 
growth, productiveness and adaptability to various 
soils. Ripens about mid-season. Clusters are large to 
medium. Berries irregular, medium to large in size, 
roundish, light and dark red and covered with bloom. 
Very handsome. 
Caco, Red. A new red grape of excellent quality. 
Ripens midseason. A rich wine color, it is a valuable 
and highly desirable grape for garden and vineyard. 
Campbell’s Early, Black. Has high quality when 
matured, freedom from acidity about the seeds; earli¬ 
ness of maturity; hardiness of vine and good shipping 
and keeping qualities. Generally ripens about the last 
of August. Berries are usually large, roundish, dark, 
purplish black covered with heavy blue bloom. Flesh 
is firm, but tender, quality rich, sweet and slightly 
vinous. 
Catawba, Red. Catawba is one of the leading Grapes 
grown commercially along the shores of Lake Erie, 
Northern Ohio, and about the central lakes of New 
York State, Planted with great success for its juice 
crop—is in demand for its pleasing refreshing and fine- 
flavored juice; nice to eat out of hand. It succeeds 
over a wide area and berries keep exceptionally well, 
often lasting until March or even later. It is the 
standard red Grape on the market and because of its 
excellent quality often brings a higher price than 
other varieties. Very late. Clusters large to medium, 
berries oval to roundish, dull purplish red covered 
with bloom. itp. 
Concord, Black. The Concord is known by all. Prob¬ 
ably the most widely grown of the Grapes of this con¬ 
tinent, Readily adapts itself to varying conditions 
and is grown with profit in every Grape growing state 
in the Union and to an extent not possible with any 
other Grape. It succeeds in a greater number of soils 
than any other variety. A second commendable char¬ 
acteristic is its high degree of fruitfulness as it gives 
large crops year in and year out. It is also very hardy, 
ripens comparatively early, thus assuring maturity in 
Northern regions. Bears good size bunches of berries 
of good black color with abundant bloom which 
makes a most handsome Grape. Concord leaves out 
and blossoms late in the spring and it does not, there¬ 
fore, often suffer from spring frosts and the fruit is not 
easily injured by late frosts. It is a table Grape and 
to use the oft quoted expression coined by Horace 
Greeley, “It is the Grape for the millions.” Used to a 
great extent for making red Grape juice. Yields a 
good run of desirable juice and the juice luis a good 
demand in the market as well as being pleasing for 
home use. Fruit ripens about mid-season, keeps from 
one to two months. Berries medium to large, round¬ 
ish, juicy, sweet, and of high quality. 
Delaware, Red. Early September. Delaware is the 
American Grape, “par excellence.” There is prob¬ 
ably no other variety more richly or more delicately 
flavored and with a more agreeable aroma than Dela¬ 
ware. This variety is rightly used, wherever Ameri¬ 
can Grapes are grown, as a standard whereby to 
gauge the quality of other Grapes. Added to its high 
quality it is endowed with a constitution which en¬ 
ables it to withstand severe climatic conditions and it 
easily adapts itself to many soils and conditions and 
bears an abundant crop. Besides these qualities it 
matures sufficiently early (usually early September) 
