A CUBAN FRUIT OF PROMISE 



One of the things needed by tropical fruit growers is a satisfactory grape. Most of the grapes 

 known to commerce are natives of temperate countries, and have never given satisfactory 

 results in warm regions; hence good grapes are not now grown m tropical America. In 

 the wild Caribbean grape here illustrated, however, is a plant which breeders can probably 

 make serve their needs. It is found in many parts of Cuba and the West Indies and even 

 in a wild form its berries are as good as those of some of the North American wild grapes, 

 which have been so admirably improved during the last century. There is reason to be- 

 lieve that the plant breeders can produce from this stock a grape that will meet their 

 wants as well as the Concord and other varieties meet those of North America, (l^ig. lU}. 



