_Arnold's No. 8._ (1, 2, 4). Brant and Canada are full brothers and so near alike that the two are often confounded with each other. Neither has ever become popular in North America because of their susceptibility to fungi. As Riparia and Vinifera hybrids, the best of Arnold's seedlings from crosses of these two species, they are of interest and of possible value in grape-breeding. Since Brant and Canada are so nearly alike a discussion of one will suffice for both and this is reserved for Canada, the better known and more valuable of the two varieties. Charles Arnold of Paris, Canada, produced this variety sometime in the sixties. It is a seedling of Clinton pollinated by Black St. Peters. The following description of it is taken from Downing's _Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America_:[167] "Vine strong, healthy grower. Foliage of a dark reddish green, deeply lobed. Smooth on both sides. Bunch and berry medium, black. Flesh free from pulp, very juicy, sweet, and, when perfectly ripe, rich and aromatic. Ripens early." BRIGHTON. (Labrusca, Vinifera.) =1.= _Mich. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1872=:548. =2.= _Gar. Mon._, =16=:344. 1874. =3.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1881=:24. =4.= Downing, =1881=:165 app. =5.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:78. _fig._ =6.= _Rural N. Y._, =45=:622. 1886. =7.= _Ill. Sta. Bul._, =28=:258. 1893. =8.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:527, 540, 543, 545, 546, 548, 549, 552, 553, 559. 1898. =9.= _Ib._, =18=:367, 371, 386, 396. 1899. =10.= _Mo. Sta. Bul._, =46=:37, 42, 44, 45, 48, 54. 1899. =11.= _Mich. Sta. Bul._, =169=:164. 1899. =12.= _W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1899=:91. =13.= _Mo. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1900=:364. =14.= _Can. Hort._, =27=:345, 392. 1904. _Trask_ (12). Brighton is one of the few Labrusca-Vinifera hybrids which have attained prominence in commercial vineyards. It has the distinction, too, of being one of the first, if not the first, secondary or attenuated hybrid of Labrusca with Vinifera, _i. e._, the offspring of a hybrid crossed with one of the original parents or with a variety of the same species. The parents of Brighton were Diana Hamburg, a hybrid of Vinifera crossed with Labrusca, and Concord, a pure-bred Labrusca. As we have seen, the first or primary hybrids of Vinifera with Labrusca have given grapes of high quality, but lacking in vigor, in resistance to fungi and phylloxera, and for most part infertile in bloom. The secondary hybrids have not shown the weaknesses of the primary hybrids in nearly so marked a degree but have given, in many instances, as in Brighton, Diamond and probably Delaware, varieties of nearly as high quality. It is now generally recognized by viticulturists that the secondary hybrids with Vinifera promise much more than do the primary ones and it is no mean distinction that Brighton has of being the first secondary hybrid brought about by the hand of man.