ot so desirable. The size, form and color of bunches and berries
are good, making a very attractive fruit, but the grapes have an
obnoxious, foxy taste and odor and are pulpy and seedy. Lucile is
earlier than Concord, the crop ripening with that of Worden or
preceding it a few days. For an early variety, the fruit keeps well
and in spite of thin skin ships well. The vine thrives in all grape
soils. Lucile may be recommended where a hardy grape is desired and
for localities in which the season is short. J. A. Putnam, Fredonia,
New York, grew Lucile. The vine fruited first in 1890. It is a
seedling of Wyoming, which it resembles in fruit and vine and
surpasses in both.

Vine vigorous, hardy, very productive. Canes long, light brown;
nodes enlarged, flattened; internodes short; tendrils continuous,
bifid or trifid. Leaves large, firm; upper surface light green,
glossy, smooth; lower surface pale green, pubescent; leaf with
terminus acute; petiolar sinus shallow, narrow, sometimes closed
and overlapping; basal sinus usually absent; lateral sinus a notch
when present; teeth shallow. Flowers self-fertile, open early;
stamens upright.

Fruit early, keeps well. Clusters large, long, slender,
cylindrical, usually single-shouldered, very compact; pedicel
short, thick with few, small, inconspicuous warts; brush light
brown. Berries large, round, dark red with thin bloom, persistent,
firm; skin thin, tender, astringent; flesh pale green,
translucent, juicy, tough, stringy, foxy; fair in quality. Seeds
adherent, one to four, small, broad, short, blunt, dark brown.

LUTIE

(Labrusca)

Lutie (Plate XXIII) is chiefly valuable for its vine characters. The
vines are vigorous, hardy, healthy and fruitful, although scarcely
equaling Lucile in any of these characters. Pomologists differ widely
as to the merits of the fruit, some claiming high quality for it and
others declaring that it is no better than a wild Labrusca. The
difference of opinion is due to a peculiarity of the fruit; if eaten
fresh, the quality, while far from being of the best, is not bad, but
after being picked for several days it develops so much foxiness of
flavor and aroma that it is scarcely edible. Lutie is a seedling found
by L. C. Chisholm, Spring Hill, Tennessee. It was introduced in 1885.

Vine vigorous, hardy, healthy, productive. Canes short, slender,
dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged