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S. pilifera. (Syn. lepidophylla.) o-4 inches high ; branches arranged around a 

 central stem, frond-like, imbricated ; leaves ovate, serrate, with long slender points. 

 A handsome species, grown quite often as lepidophyllum, which it very much resem- 

 bles, Texas, 



S. cuspidata. (Lye. circinale.) G-15 in, high ; branches fro'id-like and arranged 

 round a central stem very much in the form of a bird's nest, delicate pale green ; 

 branchlets bi-pinnate, one inch long; leaves obliquely ovate with long bristle points, 

 serrulate and long ciliate at the base ; smaller ones obliquely ovate and pointed. 

 Trop, America. 



Situation as Affecting the Grape Vine. 



BY ALEXANDER W, COAVPER. 



rpHE expedition to the Rocky Mountains found, on the borders of the Arkansas and 

 -*- near the eastern side of the Great Desert, hundreds of acres of the same kind of 

 vine {vitis vinifera) which produces the wines of Europe. These vines were growing 

 ■in a wild state, and were surrounded with hillocks of sand, rising to within from 

 twelve to eighteen inches of the ends of the branches. They were loaded with the 

 most delicious grapes, and the clusters were so closely arranged as to conceal every 

 part of the stem. These hillocks of sand are produced by the agency of the vines, 

 arresting the sand as it is borne along by the wind. — Hoi'ticultural Register, August, 

 18.36 — From the Rural Carolinian, December, 1872, page 136. 



Early in the nineteenth century, my grandfather sent laborers to Long Island, on 

 the coa>t of Georgia. Walking on the sea beach, they found grape vines growing a 

 little above high water mark ; they were loaded with delicious grapes. After the 

 men had gorged themselves they became blind, and remained so for three days. 



A year ago I noticed a wild grape vine growing on a low hummock near the black 

 rush ; part of the vines entwined a tree, others had run over the rushes and taken 

 root. The rushes were about two and a half feet high, and the soil on which they 

 grew, a moist rich clay loam ; the soil of the hummock was only a few feet higher, a 

 rich moist sand loam. The grapes on the tree were small, sour, watery, of the 

 variety vitis vulpina. Those rooted among and running on the rushes were large, 

 fleshy, sweet and agreeable, only to be recognized as the same kind as those on the 

 tree by the parent vines issuing from the same stock. 



Hamilton, St. Simo?is Isle, Geo. 



