Vine vigorous to medium, hardy, produces fair crops. Leaves medium to large, sometimes strongly rugose, with lower surface heavily pubescent. Flowers self-fertile or nearly so, open in mid-season; stamens upright. Fruit ripens with Concord or slightly earlier, the different clusters varying in season of ripening, ships well and keeps in good condition far into the winter. Clusters intermediate in size, usually with a small single shoulder, medium to compact. Berries above medium to small, roundish although frequently strongly compressed on account of compactness of cluster, rather dull, pale red, somewhat lighter than Catawba, covered with thin lilac bloom, persistent. Skin very thick. Flesh tender, vinous, somewhat foxy, sweet at skin to agreeably tart at center, good in quality, resembling Diana or Catawba. The seeds, which are few in number, often show a rough granular, warty surface around the chalaza. ALLEN'S HYBRID. (Labrusca, Vinifera.) =1.= _Mag. Hort._, =20=:474. 1854. =2.= _Ib._, =21=:182. 1855. =3.= _Essex Inst. Proc._, =1=:195. 1856. =4.= _Mag. Hort._, =26=:66. 1860. =5.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1862=:90. =6.= Strong, =1866=:330. =7.= Mead, =1867=:176, 187, 194. _fig._ =8.= _Ga. Sta. An. Rpt._, =13=:320. 1900. =9.= _Ga. Sta. Bul._, =53=:40. 1901. A half century ago Allen's Hybrid was the vine of promise in America. It was the first named hybrid between _Vitis labrusca_ and _Vitis vinifera_ to be disseminated and as such awakened the slumbering hopes of the horticulturists of a continent. American grape-growers had all but given up the expectation of ever growing the European grape in the New World when Allen announced this hybrid. Auspicious hope! Grape-growers everywhere hybridized grapes and the growing of the vine received an impetus surpassed only by that of the introduction of the Concord. Botanists and horticulturists had doubted the possibility and the practicability of crossing the Old World grape with the New World species, when this variety removed the doubt and led them to hope that we were to have varieties of grapes in America possessing many of the coveted characters of the grapes of Europe.