=1.= _Gar. Mon._, =28=:304. 1886. =2.= _Rural N. Y._, =50=:221,
_fig._, 643, 690. 1891. =3.= _Ib._, =51=:147, 607, 774. 1892.
_fig._ =4.= Husmann, =1895=:127. =5.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._,
=1897=:20. =6.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:548, 554. 1898. =7.=
_Tex. Sta. Bul._, =48=:1149, 1154. 1898. _fig._ =8.= _Mo. Sta.
Bul._, =46=:38, 43, 45, 49. 1899. =9.= _Rural N. Y._, =59=:674,
690, 752, 770, 802, 819. 1900. =10.= _Ga. Sta. Bul._, =53=:41, 51,
52, 54. 1901.
The Carman is another grape having the characters of three
species--_Vitis lincecumii_, _V. labrusca_ and _V. vinifera_--and hence
of interest to grape improvers at least. In the twenty-three years it
has been known in New York it has not become popular with grape-growers
chiefly because it ripens too late for this region and when ripe does
not attain the high quality ascribed to it elsewhere. Its most valuable
character is that of long keeping, whether while hanging on the vine or
after harvesting.
[Illustration: CARMAN]
T. V. Munson of Denison, Texas, raised Carman from seed of a wild
Post-oak grape taken from the woods, pollinated with mixed pollen of
Triumph and Herbemont. It was introduced in 1892 and placed on the
American Pomological Society fruit catalog list in 1897. The variety
was named in honor of E. S. Carman, for many years editor of the
_Rural New Yorker_, and a plant-breeder of note.
Vine very vigorous to medium, hardy, lacking in productiveness.
Canes long, numerous, thick, brown to reddish-brown; nodes but
slightly enlarged, flattened; internodes long to medium; diaphragm
somewhat thick; pith above medium size; shoots very pubescent;
tendrils intermittent, long, trifid.
Leaf-buds rather large, nearly short, thick, conical to obtuse,
open rather late. Young leaves slightly tinged with rose on upper
and lower sides. Leaves in good condition until injured by frost,
large, thick; upper surface light to dark green, somewhat glossy,
older leaves rugose; lower surface pale green, pubescent; veins
indistinct; terminal lobe acute to obtuse; petiolar sinus deep to
narrow; basal sinus often absent or shallow; lateral sinus medium
to shallow when present; teeth intermediate in depth and width.
Flowers on plan of five or six, fertile or nearly so, open very
late; stamens upright.
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