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Grapes

CONCORD

This blue black grape produces medium to large berries.  Plants are very hardy, productive, and disease resistant.  Ideal for jellies and grape juice.

 

FREDONIA

A blue black grape with large cluster of medium to large berries.   Plants are vigorous and hardy.  Early ripening variety.

 

NIAGARA

This white grape grows in large clusters.  Fruit is very good, sweet, and juicy.  Berry is large in size.  Excellent flavor for fresh eating and jellies.  Plants are vigorous, hardy, and productive.  Mid-season variety.

 

CATAWBA

A good hardy red variety.  The fruit is medium in size with large, well formed clusters.  It is late season variety.

 

CYNTHIANA

One of the best wine grapes there is.  The tight clustered blue grape is very sweet.  It is cold hardy, disease resistant and very easy to grow.

 

VANESSA

Early ripening, red, seedless grape.  Large and sweet grape that is also very disease resistant.

 

VENUS

A large, blue, seedless table grape.  Vines are very productive, vigorous, and disease resistant.  Berries hold well on the vine.

 

RELIANCE (Pat. # 5174)

Reliance is a pink, seedless table grape with very high dessert quality.  Berries are medium in size that grow in medium to large clusters.  Hardy vines are very productive and vigorous.  Blooms late and is disease resistant.  Great for jelly and juicing.

 

FLAME

A crisp, juicy, sweet seedless grape.  Flame is and excellent fresh eating red grape.  Grows well in the lower southern states.

 

THOMPSON

Large, white seedless table grape.  Excellent variety for fresh eating and commercial purposes.  This variety is suited to the lower southern states.

 

MARS (Pat. # 5680)

The fruit of Mars is blue, round, and seedless.  Berries are medium to large in size.  Vines are hardy.  A disease resistant table grape.  Ripens early.

            

HIMROD

Delicious flavor, white, seedless grape.  Good texture and compact clusters.  One of the best white grapes.

 

MUSCADINE GRAPES

Self-Fertile Varieties (perfect flower)

 

CARLOS

Bronze; fruit size, small; skin, medium; flavor pleasing; will pick with a dry scar; production, heavy to over productive.  A good Bronze variety for wine making.  Recommended for commercial use.

 

COWART

Black. Fruit size is very large with very large clusters.  Disease resistant.  Vines are vigorous.  The largest self–fertile variety. Production level is good.

 

Bronze female Varieties

(must have self-fertile varieties interplanted)

 

FRY

Bronze; fruit size, small; skin, medium; flavor pleasing; will pick with a dry scar; production, heavy to over productive.  A good bronze variety for wine making.  Recommended for commercial use.

 

SCUPPERNONG

Bronze.  Fruit size is medium to large with clusters that are medium in size.  The skin is medium to thin.  This variety ripens early.  The best known and most widely grown variety of the muscadine grapes.  It is sweet with an excellent and distinctive flavor.  The oldest cultivated variety, but still one of the best.

 

Black female varieties

(Must have self-fertile varieties interplanted)

 

HUNT

Black.  Fruit size is medium to large with large clusters.  The quality is excellent and ripens early.  Hunt is the variety most other varieties are compared to, and is still one of the best all purpose varieties.  It is excellent for wine, unfermented juice, jelly, hull preserves and all other commercial purposes.  Highly recommended for both home and commercial use.

 

JUMBO

Black in color.  Fruit is the largest of any muscadine variety that has been introduced.  Clusters are large, good quality with a good production level.  Disease resistant.  Ripens in the mid to late season.  The fruit ripens irregularly over several weeks making it an excellent variety for home use.

 

PLANTING INSTRUCTIONS

Grapes can be planted on fences, trellises, and arbors.  They will grow satisfactorily in a wide rage of soil types provided the moisture supply is adequate.  Extremely dry or extremely wet soils are to be avoided.  Apply a high nitrogen fertilizer to each vine about the time the growth starts in the spring.  Plant grapes 6 to 10 feet apart.  Prune in the late winter.  The canes which have suffered from winter injury can easily be detected and removed.

 

Recipe:  Frosted Grapes

 

1. Bunches of fresh grapes

2. Several egg whites, lightly beaten

3. Granulated sugar (or fruit-flavored gelatin)

 

Make this sparkly garnish by dipping bunches

of grapes into egg whites.   Dust generously

with granulated sugar (or fruit-flavored gelatin).

Grapes: 12 varieties

Muscadine Grapes: 6 varieties

 

Prices listed below descriptions.