THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 117 



sued bv the J. B. Lippincott Company of Philadelphia. The 

 price is $1.60. 



Seventy-nine different books on the grape have been issued 

 in North America — more than all the books on other fruits 

 put together — but U. P. Hedrick of the New York Agricultural 

 Experiment Station comes forward with a new one which is 

 made desirable by the many changes introduced through mod- 

 ern methods. The bulk of the volume is a carefully written 

 account of everything that concerns the growing, marketing 

 and utilization of grapes and is here mentioned only to be com- 

 mended. One of the interesting features of the book is the 

 list of the varieties of American grapes to which are added 

 descriptions of each variety with an account of its origin, the 

 stock from which it originated when known, and more or less 

 useful information of a similar nature. There are about 60 

 species of grapes in the world, most of which are found in the 

 Northern Hemisphere. Nearly half of these occur in North 

 America and most of the others are found in China and Japan. 

 The most important is the European wine grape which has 

 been cultivated from time immemorial — Noah used to grow 

 it — and which is still the leading grape for wine and raisin 

 making. More than 2,000 varieties of American grapes have 

 been reported. These have come principally from four species 

 with the European grape, often more or less blended. The 

 foremost American- species, so far as the number of reported 

 varieties is concerned, is Vitis labrusca, the common wild grape 

 of the North-eastern States. The Concord and Catawba are 

 typical of this species. Vitis rotnndifolia has produced the 

 Muscadine and Scuppernong, V . aestivalis is typified by the 

 Delaware and V . vullnna 1)y the Clinton. The book is one that 

 modern grape^ growers can scarcely do without. It contains 

 450 pages and many illustrations and is published Iw the Mac 

 millan Company of New York in their series of Rural Manuals 

 edited by L. H. Bailey. The price is $2.50. 



