Vine vigorous to very vigorous, hardy except in severe winters, productive. Canes long, rather numerous, about average size, nearly light to medium dark brown; tendrils continuous, bifid. Leaves healthy, above medium to large, thickish; upper surface dark green, slightly glossy, nearly smooth; lower surface pale green, somewhat cobwebby; veins rather distinct. Flowers fertile or nearly so, open medium early; stamens upright. Fruit ripens late, two or three weeks after Concord, keeps fairly well. Clusters medium to small, rather short and broad, irregularly cylindrical, usually with a short, medium-sized single shoulder but sometimes so heavily shouldered as to form a double bunch, very compact. Berries medium to small, roundish to frequently compressed on account of compactness of cluster, rather pale green, sometimes with a faint yellow tinge, dull, covered with thin gray bloom, shatter considerably when overripe, firm. Skin thin, tender, contains no pigment. Flesh juicy, fine-grained, somewhat tough and stringy, slightly foxy, neither rich nor high-flavored, sweet at skin to tart at center, mild, intermediate in flavor and quality. Seeds separate from the pulp quite easily, medium to above in size and width, long to medium, somewhat plump and blunt, brownish; raphe buried in a broad, shallow groove; chalaza of medium size, oval, nearly central, moderately distinct. EUMELAN. (Labrusca, Vinifera, Aestivalis.) =1.= _Rec. of Hort._, =1866=:38. =2.= Mead, =1867=:220. =3.= Fuller, =1867=:241. =4.= _Am. Jour. Hort._, =8=:144, 299. 1870. =5.= Barry, =1872=:418. =6.= _Mich. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1872=:543, 555. =7.= _Ill. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1875=:393. =8.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._, =1875=:24. =9.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:99. _fig._ =10.= _Wis. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1885=:174. =11.= _W. N. Y. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =36=:43. 1891. =12.= _Va. Sta. Bul._, =94=:134. 1898. =13.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:530, 545, 546, 548, 549, 552. 1898. =14.= _Tex. Sta. Bul._, =56=:271. 1900. WASHINGTON (1). _Washington_ (3).