=1.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1881=:33. =2.= _Ill. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1881=:162, 164. =3.= _Bush. Cat._, =1883=:103. =4.= _Kan. Hort. Soc. Rpt._, =1889-90=:20. app. =5.= _Gar. and For._, =3=:290, 490, 599. 1890. =6.= _Ala. Sta. Bul._, =10=:10. 1890. =7.= _Ill. Sta. Bul._, =28=:264. 1893. =8.= _N. Y. Sta. An. Rpt._, =15=:294. 1896. =9.= _Ib._, =17=:531, 548, 555. 1898. _Grein's No. 2_ (3). Grein Golden ranks with Missouri Riesling as the best of Nicholas Grein's several seedlings of Taylor, both being improvements over the parent variety. It is very similar to Missouri Riesling but is, on the Station grounds, and in general, a much stronger grower. For a variety of the Taylor group, both cluster and berry are large and uniform, which, with the attractive golden color of the berries, make it a most handsome fruit. But as the variety grows in New York the flavor is not at all pleasing, being an unusual commingling of sweetness and acidity quite disagreeable to most palates; and so while its habit of growth, hardiness, health of vine and productiveness are such as would make the variety acceptable the quality of the fruit condemns it for table use. In fact the last remark applies in a greater or less degree to all of the varieties of the Taylor group for this State--they fall so far short in quality that they can never be of value as market or table grapes. All are suitable for wine and Grein Golden in particular is said to make a very good white wine. The fruit of this variety cracks badly in wet weather and does not keep nor ship well, skin and flesh being very tender. [Illustration: GREIN GOLDEN] Nicholas Grein of Hermann, Missouri, produced Grein Golden over thirty years ago. It is generally supposed to be from seed of Taylor. Grein states that he planted seed of the European Riesling and of Taylor at the same time, and that the Taylor did not germinate but that the European Riesling did, one of the seedlings being Grein Golden. As the Grein Golden shows Riparia very plainly, with no trace of Vinifera, it is generally supposed that the seeds were mixed and that Grein Golden is a Taylor seedling. The variety has been and still is a commercial sort in the wine districts of the middle West. Vine vigorous, hardy, productive. Canes long to medium, numerous, somewhat slender, rather dark reddish-brown; nodes slightly enlarged, usually flattened; internodes long to medium; diaphragm of average thickness; pith intermediate in size; shoots pubescent; tendrils intermittent, of fair length, trifid to sometimes bifid.