. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. 7. BLACK PRINCE. Fig. i. Fruit of the medium size, round, or slightly oval, growing in long thinly set clusters. Skin tough and thick, and thickly covered with a blue bloom. Flavor sweet and ex. cellent. Rarely ripens in the open air. 8. BLACK MOROCCO. Fruit large, oval, higher than wide, or elongated. Reddish pur- ple, and running into blac
. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. 7. BLACK PRINCE. Fig. i. Fruit of the medium size, round, or slightly oval, growing in long thinly set clusters. Skin tough and thick, and thickly covered with a blue bloom. Flavor sweet and ex. cellent. Rarely ripens in the open air. 8. BLACK MOROCCO. Fruit large, oval, higher than wide, or elongated. Reddish pur- ple, and running into black. Flesh green, seeds green and large ; taste slightly acid, though rich. Grows in large clusters, the berries of which have a thick skin. Downing remarks that it requires to be fertilized by the pollen of the Black Hamburgh, or some other hardy sort ;* that it is late in ripening, and requires for this end a good deal of * It is difficult to understand why it is essential to the ripening or perfection of a fruit of the grape kind, that it should be fertilized by the pollen of another variety. The pollen can have no influence, except upon the seed. The pollen of an apple blossom, falling upon the stigma of another variety of apple, will not have the least influence in. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Emmons, Ebenezer, 1799-1863. Albany, C. Van Benthuysen
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