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Barry (Plate VII) is one of the best American black grapes, resembling
in berry and in flavor and keeping quality of fruit its European
parent, Black Hamburg. The appearance of berry and bunch is
attractive. The vine is vigorous, hardy and productive but susceptible
to mildew. The ripening season is just after that of Concord. For the
table, for winter keeping and for the amateur, this variety may be
highly recommended. Barry was dedicated in 1869, by E. S. Rogers, who
originated it, to Patrick Barry, distinguished nurseryman and
pomologist. The variety is grown in gardens throughout the grape
regions of eastern America.

Vine vigorous, hardy, productive, susceptible to mildew. Canes
long, numerous, thick, dark brown with heavy bloom; nodes
flattened; shoots glabrous; tendrils intermittent, bifid or
trifid. Leaves large; upper surface light green, glossy, smooth;
lower surface pale green, pubescent; lobes one to three, terminus
acute; petiolar sinus deep, narrow, sometimes closed and
overlapping; basal sinus usually lacking; lateral sinus shallow,
narrow; teeth shallow. Flowers open in mid-season, self-sterile;
stamens reflexed.

Fruit mid-season, keeps well. Clusters short, very broad,
tapering, often subdividing into several parts, compact; pedicel
with small warts. Berries large, oval, dark purplish-black,
glossy, covered with heavy bloom, adherent; skin thin, tough,
adherent; flesh pale green, translucent, tender, stringy, vinous,
pleasant-flavored; good. Seeds adherent, one to five, large,
deeply notched, with enlarged neck, brown.

BEACON

(Lincecumii, Labrusca)

Another of T. V. Munson's hybrids is Beacon. It is not well adapted to
northern regions but does very well in the South. The vine is vigorous
and bears a handsome, compact mass of foliage which retains its color
and freshness through drouths and heat. Munson grew Beacon in 1887
from seed of Big Berry (a variety of Lincecumii) pollinated by
Concord, the vine bearing first in 1889.

Vine vigorous, precariously hardy, productive. Canes short,
slender, light brown. Leaves healthy, thick, dark green, sometimes
rugose; veins showing indistinctly through the slight pubescence
of the lower surface. Flowers open in mid-season, on plan of five
or six, self-fertile.

Fruit mid-season, keeps well. Clusters large, long, slender,
cylindrical, usually high-should