Inventory 53, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE II. 



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An Indian Boy Holding a Cluster of Wild Tropical Grapes (Vitis 

 tiliaefolia humb. and bonpl., s. p. i. no. 4536! i. 



The problem of producing a table grape which will grow and fruit well in the Tropics is probably 

 one of plant breeding. The existence of this strictly tropical species of Vitis, which bearselusters 

 of fruit of fair size and quality, should encourage the plant breeders to hybridize it with the larger 

 fruited cultivated grape. The photograph is of a cluster from a ^ine found near Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, but the inventory description is of a form which, according to Wilson Popenoe, is very 

 juicy, very sour, and contains only two seeds. It bears hea\ily and the fruits are of fairly goo<l 

 size and onlv need to be sweetened to be fit for table use. (Photographed bv Wilson Popenoe, 

 Puerto Mexico, Vera Cruz, June 15, 1918; P17494FS.) 





