Vine moderately vigorous to vigorous, not very hardy, healthy,
produces smaller crops than Concord. Canes intermediate in length
and number, covered with slight blue bloom; tendrils intermittent
to continuous, bifid to trifid. Leaves medium in size, light
green; lower surface grayish-white, pubescent. Flowers nearly
sterile to partly fertile, open medium late; stamens upright. Fruit
ripens soon after Niagara, ships well and keeps into the winter.
Clusters medium to above in size, of average width, often blunt at
ends, usually not shouldered, intermediate in compactness, with
many abortive fruits. Berries medium to large, slightly oval or
obovate, dull green changing to a faint yellow tinge, covered with
thin gray bloom. Flesh pale green, tender and soft, vinous, nearly
sweet at skin to tart at center, fair to good in quality but not
equal to some other white grapes of the same season. Seeds
intermediate in size and length.
GLENFELD.[189]
(Labrusca.)
=1.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =11=:624. 1892. =2.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Cat._,
=1897=:19. =3.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =17=:530, 548, 555. 1898.
Grown in the Station vineyard since 1889, Glenfeld has made a somewhat
favorable impression because of its excellent quality but it seems not
to have been well received throughout the State and it is doubtful if it
has more than a local reputation about the place of its origin. It is
equaled or surpassed, however, by many other varieties of its season in
vine characters and there is therefore little need that it should be
longer perpetuated, though it may be worthy a place in the garden.
Glenfeld was found on the place of George J. Magee of Watkins, New York.
Mr. Magee reports that the vine was on the place when he purchased it
and the former owner knew nothing of it. The variety was locally
supposed to be a seedling of Concord. It was sent to this Station for
testing in 1889. For some reason it was placed upon the grape list of
the American Pomological Society fruit catalog for 1897. Such action was
hardly justified, as the variety had never been tested except in one or
two neighborhoods, and it was taken off at the next meeting.
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