Fruit ripens just before Catawba, an excellent keeper. Clusters variable in size, of average length and breadth, tapering to cylindrical, frequently single-shouldered, usually compact; peduncle above medium length and thickness; pedicel short, slender, smooth with very slight swelling at point of attachment to berry; brush short, slender, wine-colored. Berries inferior in size, roundish to slightly oblate, dark purplish-black to black, glossy, covered with a fair amount of blue bloom, persistent, firm. Skin rather thin, tough, nearly free from pulp, contains little or no pigment, not astringent. Flesh yellowish-green, not juicy, somewhat tender when fully ripe, has some Post-oak flavor, vinous, spicy, sweetish at skin to tart next the seeds, good to very good. Seeds separate easily from pulp, one to four, average two or three, small, of mean length and breadth, blunt, brownish; raphe sometimes cord-like; chalaza intermediate in size, slightly above center, oval to pear-shaped, distinct. CATAWBA. (Labrusca, Vinifera.) =1.= Adlum, =1823=:109, 139. =2.= Ib., =1828=:173. =3.= Ib., =1828=:176. =4.= Prince, =1830=:175. =5.= Ib., =1830=:180. =6.= _U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt._, =1845=:312, 938, 939. =7.= _Ib._, =1847=:462, 463, 464, 465, 466, 467, 469. =8.= _Mag. Hort._, =15=:513. 1849. =9.= _West. Hort. Rev._, =1=:15. 1850. =10.= _U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt._, =1851=:48, 49, 51. 11. _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1852=:54. =12.= Buchanan, =1852=:23, 71, 96, 106. =13.= Elliott, =1854=:244. =14.= Hooper, =1857=:274. =15.= _Horticulturist_, =16=:120. 1861. =16.= _Mag. Hort._, =28=:506. 1862. =17.= _Ib._, =29=:73. 1863. =13.= _Gar. Mon._, =5=:73, 74, 184. 1863. =19.= _N. Y. Ag. Soc. Rpt._, =1864=:42. =20.= Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., =1867=:43. =21.= Fuller, =1867=:220, 241, 248. =22.= _Gar. Mon._, =9=:214. 1867. =23.= _Horticulturist_, =23=:298. 1868. _fig. of leaf._ =24.= Downing, =1869=:533. =25.= Barry, =1872=:421. =26.= _Gar. Mon._, =14=:167. 1872. =27.= _Ohio Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1875-6=:72, 73. =28.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:80. _fig._ =29.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1883=:118. =30.= _Am. Gard._, =12=:581. 1891. =31.= _Gar. and For._, =8=:487. 1895. =32.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =15=:432. 1896. =33.= _Ib._, =17=:527, 540, 543, 544, 548, 552. 1898. =34.= _Ev. Nat. Fruits_, =1898=:53. =35.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =18=:367, 374, 386, 396. 1899. =36.= _Mo. Sta. Bul._, =46=:38, 43, 44, 45. 1899. =37.= _Kan. Sta. Bul._, =110=:235. 1902. =38.= _Rural N. Y._, =61=:722. 1902. =39.= _Traité gen. de vit._, =6=:282. 1903.