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majority of bunch grapes that grow in our gardens. This 

 one, the Northern fox grape (Vitis lahrusca), is the parent 

 of the most famous — the Concord. The Concord grape ap- 

 peared in this way. Tn Concord, Mass., where were the 

 homes of Emerson and Hawthorn, and Thoreau, and Alcott, 

 there also lived Ephram Bull on the main street. In the year 

 1840 some children one day gathered hunches of the wild 

 northern fox grapes near his house and brought them up in 

 the yard to eat. The pulps were thrown about the yard. The 

 next year about a dozen plants came up from the seeds. Mr. 

 Bull became interested and thought he would see how some 

 of these plants would come out. He trailed one up on the 

 fence and let it alone. In a few years it produced fruit that 

 was far superior to the wild parent, and was moreover full 

 of vigor and very prolific. Mr, Bull named it the Concord 

 and all the millions of vines of that variety now have de- 

 scended by slips and cuttings from that one. 



The Catawba grape, another of our best and most popular 

 bunch grapes, is also a seedling of the wild fox grape. It is 

 of particular interest to us for it originated in the woods in 

 Buncombe County, in a community called !^Iurraysville, 

 about ten miles southeast of Asheville. The grape remained 

 in obscurity until it was distributed by John Adlum of the 

 District of Columbia, a pioneer benefactor of American horti- 

 culture. Other fine grapes that have come from this north- 

 ern fox grape, directly or indirectly, are Delaware, Niagara, 

 Worden, Moore's Early, Eaton, etc. 



This other grape that T have in my liand is the South- 

 ern summer grape (Vitis lahrusca). From it have come the 

 Norton's Virginia, Le Noir, Ilerbemont, and a good many 

 others. 



You do not have the muscadine or bullis grape wild here 

 in Montreat, but with us in the low country it is highly re- 

 spected as the parent of our delightful scuppernong and also 

 of the James grape, Thomas, Flowers, etc. 



Here is another interesting shrub that is now used much 

 in landscape gardening. If you get any Boston landscape 



