Vine vigorous, hardy, produces fair crops. Tendrils continuous, bifid. Leaves medium to small, light green; lower surface slightly pubescent, cobwebby. Flowers nearly sterile. Fruit ripens as early or earlier than Hartford and is a good shipper and keeper for an early grape. Clusters small to medium, often blunt at ends, slightly cylindrical, sometimes single-shouldered, compact. Berries of medium size, roundish, rather dull black, covered with abundant blue bloom, persistent. Skin tough, contains a large amount of purplish-red pigment. Flesh tough, solid, slightly aromatic, rather tart at skin to acid at center, inferior in flavor and quality. Seeds numerous, of average size. Not good enough for dessert purposes. [Illustration: EARLY OHIO] EARLY DAWN. (Labrusca, Vinifera, Aestivalis.) =1.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1875=:67. =2.= _Ib._, =1881=:43. =3.= Downing, =1881=:166, app. =4.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:94. =5.= _Va. Sta. Bul._, =30=:108. 1893. Early Dawn is a black Labrusca-Vinifera hybrid of fine quality and attractive appearance but so lacking in necessary vine characters in New York as to be practically worthless. Although it originated in New York it was never widely grown in this State. It is now, so far as records show, nearly obsolete. Dr. Wm. A. M. Culbert of Newburgh, New York, is the originator of Early Dawn, the date of its origin being some time about 1870. It is reported to have come from seed of Israella fertilized by Black Hamburg. Vine a fair to strong grower, not very hardy, medium to very productive. Canes rather long, covered with thin blue bloom; tendrils intermittent, bifid to trifid. Leaves medium to small; lower surface very pubescent and slightly hairy. Flowers sterile or nearly so, open in mid-season; stamens reflexed. Fruit ripens about two weeks earlier than Concord, keeps and ships well. Clusters medium to large, nearly cylindrical, irregular in outline, vary from not shouldered to a heavy single shoulder or sometimes with a double shoulder, medium in compactness. Berries rather small, roundish, attractive purplish-black, covered with heavy blue bloom, persistent. Flesh very juicy, tender, slightly vinous, sprightly, agreeably tart, variable in flavor and quality, ranging from fair to very good. Seeds not numerous, broad, plump. EARLY OHIO. (Labrusca.) =1.= _An. Hort._, =1892=:176. =2.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =12=:619. 1893. =3.= _Rural N. Y._, =53=:645. 1894. _fig._ =4.= _Bush. Cat._, =1894=:119, 120. _fig._ =5.= _Wis. Sta. An. Rpt._, =13=:226. 1896. _fig._ =6.= _Rural N. Y._, =56=:627, _fig._, 630, 823. 1897. =7.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:529, 548, 554. 1898.