Fruit ripens in mid-season or later, keeps fairly well. Clusters not uniform, very large to medium, longish, rather slender, irregularly tapering, often with an unusually heavy single shoulder, very loose to medium; peduncle long, thick; pedicel somewhat long, thick, covered with few, small, inconspicuous warts; brush intermediate in length, greenish. Berries irregular in size averaging about medium, roundish to slightly elongated, light green, changing to yellowish-green, covered with thin gray bloom, persistent, slightly soft. Skin thin, rather tough, adheres very slightly to the pulp, contains no pigment. Flesh green, somewhat transparent, very juicy, melting, vinous, pleasant flavor, agreeably sweet, good to very good in quality. Seeds separate very easily from the flesh, one to three, above medium in size, slightly elongated, fair breadth, notched, rather sharply pointed, light brown; raphe obscure; chalaza small, above center, irregularly circular to oval, indistinct. CUNNINGHAM. (Bourquiniana.) =1.= Prince, =1830=:191. =2.= _U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt._, =1845=:939. =3.= _Gar. Mon._, =3=:83. 1861. =4.= _Am. Jour. Hort._, =3=:301. 1868. =5.= _Grape Cult._, =1=:34, 75. 1869. =6.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:87, 88. fig. =7.= _Texas Farm and Ranch_, Feb. 8, =1896=:11. =8.= _Tex. Sta. Bul._, =48=:1149, 1155. 1898. =9.= _Mo. Sta. Bul._, =46=:38, 43, 45, 46, 50, 54. 1899. =10.= _Traité gen. de vit._, =6=:268. 1903. _Long_ (4, 6, 7, 9). _Long No. 2_ (9). _Prince Edward_ (1). The Cunningham is not known in New York and in fact has been cultivated but little in America, but in France at one time it was one of the best known American grapes, both as a direct producer and as a stock for European varieties. It is not now largely grown in France, however, having been superseded by better American varieties for the uses for which it was formerly cultivated. It was much sought for by the French as a stock for large Vinifera cions, the size of the vine giving an opportunity for making a good graft. In the South, Cunningham is not largely grown as there are several other varieties of its class superior to it in quality of fruit and in vine characters as well. It seems everywhere to have been an exceedingly capricious grower and very particular as to soil and climate. It is said to make a deep yellow wine of very good quality. It has little or no value as a table grape. Cunningham originated in the garden of Jacob Cunningham of Prince Edward County, Virginia, about the year 1812. Cuttings of this vine were sent by Dr. D. N. Norton of Richmond to Prince in 1829. Prince introduced it to the public. Its botanical characters mark it as an offshoot of the Herbemont group of Bourquiniana. The following description is a compilation from several sources: