Hidalgo

(Vinifera, Labrusca, Bourquiniana)



The grapes of Hidalgo are rich, sweet, delicately flavored, and with

color, size and form of berry and bunch so well combined as to make

the fruits singularly handsome. The skin is thin but firm and the

variety keeps and ships well. The vines, however, are doubtfully

hardy, variable in vigor and not always fruitful. While Hidalgo may

not prove of value for the commercial vineyard, in favorable

situations it may give a supply of choice fruit for the amateur. The

parentage of Hidalgo, as given by its originator, T. V. Munson, is

Delaware, Goethe and Lindley. The variety was introduced by the

originator in 1902.



Vine variable in vigor, hardiness and productiveness. Canes thick,

dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; tendrils

intermittent or continuous, bifid or trifid. Leaves large,

irregularly round, thick; upper surface light green, dull, rugose;

lower surface pale green, bronzed, heavily pubescent; lobes three

when present; petiolar sinus narrow, sometimes closed and

overlapping; basal sinus wanting; lateral sinus shallow, narrow;

teeth very shallow, narrow. Flowers semi-fertile, open after

mid-season; stamens upright.



Fruit mid-season, keeps and ships well. Clusters large, long,

slender, cylindrical, often blunt, not shouldered, one to two

bunches per shoot, compact; pedicel long, slender with small

warts; brush yellowish-green with brown tinge. Berries large,

oval, greenish-yellow, glossy with thin bloom, persistent, firm;

skin thin, tough, adherent, astringent; flesh green, transparent,

juicy, tender, melting, aromatic, sweet; very good to best. Seeds

free, two to four, large, plump, light brown.