Fruit ripens late, and appears to keep well. Clusters do not always fill well, small to medium, rather short and slender, irregularly tapering, often with a medium-sized single shoulder, variable in compactness. Berries small to medium, roundish to slightly flattened, black, rather glossy, covered with blue bloom, persistent, firm. Skin rather tough, thinnish and inclined to crack, adheres slightly to the pulp, contains an unusually large amount of dark purplish-red pigment. Flesh reddish-green, moderately juicy, rather tender and soft, fine-grained, very slightly aromatic, spicy, neither so sprightly nor so high-flavored as other varieties of the same season, not good enough in flavor and quality in general for dessert purposes. Seeds separate rather easily from the pulp, intermediate in size and length, medium to above in width, notched, nearly sharp-pointed, dark brown; raphe shows as a very small cord; chalaza large, at center or slightly above, irregularly oval, distinct. CLINTON. (Riparia, Labrusca.) =1.= Adlum, =1823=:140. =2.= Ib., =1828=:176. =3.= Prince, =1830=:179. =4.= Rafinesque, =1830=:11. =5.= _N. Y. Ag. Soc. Rpt._, =1841=:388. =6.= _Horticulturist_, =2=:121, 341. 1847. =7.= _Ib._, =8=:120. 1853. _fig._ =8.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1860=:82. =9.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1862=:90. =10.= _Gar. Mon._, =5=:335. 1863. =11.= Strong, =1866=:332. =12.= Husmann, =1866=:50, 102. =13.= Fuller, =1867=:219. =14.= _U. S. D. A. Rpt._, =1869=:85. _fig._ =15.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:82. =16.= _Can. Hort._, =11=:43. 1888. =17.= _Bush. Cat._, =1894=:103, 104. _fig._ =18.= _Ev. Nat. Fruits_, =1898=:75. =19.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:528, 540, 544, 548, 554, 559. 1898. =20.= _Rural N. Y._, =59=:7, 306. 1900. WORTHINGTON (1, 2, 3, 4). _Worthington_ (15, 17). Clinton is now but little grown, its place having been taken by better varieties of its type. It has historical interest if not intrinsic value, for it played an important part in the beginning of American viticulture. Most viticulturists have ascribed to Clinton the distinction of being the first cultivated "variety of _Vitis riparia_" but without question this honor belongs to the Worthington of Adlum and Prince, with a strong probability that Clinton may be Worthington renamed. But it was as Clinton that _Vitis riparia_ was disseminated for general culture and it is the name Clinton that stands at the parental head of the long list of grapes now under cultivation from this species; and so, in spite of its being the usurper of Worthington's honor, and whether or not it be the older variety under an assumed name, it is probably best that Clinton continue to be considered the first of its race.