Geneva

(Vinifera, Labrusca)



Geneva is surpassed by so many other grapes of its season in quality

that it has never become popular, although it has much to recommend

it. The vine is vigorous and productive, although not quite hardy, and

the berries and clusters are attractive; the fruit is nearly

transparent and there is so little bloom that the grapes are a

lustrous green or iridescent in sunlight; the berries c ing well to

the stem and the fruit keeps exceptionally well. Geneva originated

with Jacob Moore, Brighton, New York, from seed planted in 1874 from a

hybrid vine fertilized by Iona.



Vine vigorous, healthy, productive. Canes covered with thin bloom;

tendrils intermittent or continuous, bifid or trifid. Leaves

medium in size; upper surface light green, dull; lower surface

grayish-white, pubescent; lobes three to five, acute; petiolar

sinus, shallow, wide; teeth shallow, narrow. Flowers self-sterile

or partly fertile, open late; stamens upright.



Fruit mid-season, ships well and keeps into the winter. Clusters

large, blunt at the ends, usually not shouldered, with many

abortive fruits; pedicel long, slender, smooth; brush long, green.

Berries large, oval, dull green changing to a faint yellow with

thin bloom; skin thick, tough, unpigmented; flesh pale green,

tender, soft, vinous, sweet at skin but tart at center; fair to

good. Seeds of medium size and length.