. Dreer's garden calendar : 1886. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 117 HARDY GRAPES-<^'o««^«"c^- El Dorado. A very beautiful .1,'rape ; clear, golden yeilow; bunch and berry larf;e ; flesh tender, juicy, rich, and "of best flavor; vine iiealthy and vigorous ; ripens a week or ten days before Concord. 2 years, $ each. Excelsior. Vine moderately vigorous; buncli large to very large; shoul- dered : moderately corajiact; berry medium to large ; roundish ; flesh meaty, te
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1886. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. FRUIT DEPARTMENT. 117 HARDY GRAPES-<^'o««^«"c^- El Dorado. A very beautiful .1,'rape ; clear, golden yeilow; bunch and berry larf;e ; flesh tender, juicy, rich, and "of best flavor; vine iiealthy and vigorous ; ripens a week or ten days before Concord. 2 years, $ each. Excelsior. Vine moderately vigorous; buncli large to very large; shoul- dered : moderately corajiact; berry medium to large ; roundish ; flesh meaty, tender, rich and sweet, with a fine aromatic flavor; ripens late. 2 years, $ each. Jefferson. Vine very vigorous, hardy and productive ; bunch very large, often double shouldered, very com- pact ; berries large, roundish oval; light red; juicy, sweet, slightly vinous. 2 years, each. Jessica. A new wliite grape, resem- bling the Chauijjion in many re- spects, tliough of better quality; re- markably early. 2 years, $ each. Lady Washington. Vine healthy and vigorous; bunch large and comj)aet; berry large; beautiful pale yellow, tinged with pink where ex}iosed to |j the sun; flesh soft, tender, juicy,sweet and of good quality; ripens a few days after Concord. 2 years, $ each. Naomi. Berry clear, attractive rose color, witli thin skin and good flavor; bunch large; vine vigorous and liealtiiy. 2 years, § each. Niasfara. No new fruit, recently intro- duced, has attracted so much public attention as the introduction of this new wliite grape. Vine remarkably hardy, and strong grower; bunches very large and compact; sometimes shouldered ; uniform ; berries large, or larger than Concord ; light green- ish wliite, semi-transparent, sliglitly ambered in the sun ; skin thin, but tough and does not ci'ack; quality good ; has a flavor and aroma pecu- liarly its own. 1 year, $; 2 years, $ each. Pocklington. A seedling of the Con- cord, resembling that variety in
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