Croton

(Vinifera, Labrusca, Bourquiniana)

The fruit of Croton is a feast both to the eye and to the palate.
Unfortunately the vine is difficult to grow, being adapted to but few
soils and proving unfruitful, weak in growth, precariously tender and
subject to mildew and rot in unfavorable situations. The grapes have a
delicate, sweet Vinifera flavor with melting flesh which readily
separates from the few seeds. The crop hangs on the vines until frost
and keeps well into the winter. In spite of high quality of fruit,
Croton has never become widely distributed, wholly failing as a
commercial variety. It originated with S. W. Underhill, Croton Point,
New York, from a seed of Delaware pollinated by a European grape.
Fruits were first exhibited in 1868.

Vine vigorous, tender, productive. Canes long, numerous, thick,
dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged; internodes short; shoots
glabrous; tendrils intermittent, long, bifid. Leaves of medium
size, hang late; upper surface light green, dull, smooth; lower
surface pale green, pubescent; lobes five, terminal one blunt;
basal sinus narrow; lateral sinus deep and narrow; petiolar sinus
narrow, often closed and overlapping; teeth shallow, wide. Flowers
self-fertile, open late; stamens upright.

Fruit mid-season, keeps well. Clusters uniform, very large, long,
slender, irregularly tapering with heavy shoulder, very loose;
pedicel long, thick with inconspicuous warts; brush green. Berries
irregular in size, round-elongated, yellowish-green with thin
bloom, persistent, soft; skin thin, tough, adherent, unpigmented;
flesh green, transparent, very juicy, melting, vinous, pleasant,
agreeably sweet; very good. Seeds free, one to three, elongated,
notched, sharply pointed.

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