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should be removed from Riparia^ also to Labrusca. Though the exact 

 position of the Delaware in the classification of the genus Vitis has 

 been a mooted question, and some have even supposed it had a 

 European origin; yet those who have most studied the subject now 

 concur in the opinion, years ago expressed by Fuller in his Grape 

 CuUurist, that it belongs to Labrusca— ^lu opinion substantiated by 

 the facts that its seedlings almost invariably show true, undoubted 

 Labruscan characters, and that other undoubted varieties of Labrusca 

 (as Shepherd's Delaware, raised from seed of Catawba) bear a similar 

 pale fruit and delicate leaf, and otherwise very closely resemble it. 

 The seed characters bear out this opinion, though they also indicate 

 that the variety may contain a slight strain of the European vinifera. 

 It is not improbable, therefore, that the Delaware owes its characters 

 to hybridization, by insect agency, between Labrusca and vinifera 

 (the Labrusca strain predominating), and this view would be greatly 

 strengthened if it could be proved — as was doubtless the case — that 

 European vines were cultivated at Frenchtown, N. J., where Mr. Pre- 

 vost first found the Delaware. This origin and nature of the Dela- 

 ware, by the way, throws a flood of light on its susceptibility to Phyl- 

 loxera. 



The nature of the " Jaques," which successfully resists Phylloxera 

 in the vineyards of Mr. Laliman at Bordeaux, in France, and of which 

 I have stated (Fifth Rep. p. ^^,) "I do not know this variety unless it 

 be a synonym of the Ohio," has been fully discussed by Prof. Plan- 

 chon,* and by Mr. Bush in his new Descriptive Catalouge.f I repro- 

 duce what is said of it in this last little work, which is a most valuable 

 manual, and reflects great credit on the firm that issues it. From this 

 extract it will be seen thatMr. Bush is strongly inclined to the opinion 

 that the vine so prized in France, under the name of Jacques, is in 

 reality the Lenoir. 



Ohio. Syn. Segar-Box, Longworth's Ohio, Black-Spanish Alabama; is now 

 understood to be identical with the''Jaques" or "Jack," introduced and cultivated 

 near Natchez, Mississippi, by au old Spaniard of the name of Jaques. It used to be 

 $rro\vn in Ohio, where the stock orio^inated from a few cuttinofs left in a seo;ar box, by 

 some unknown person, at the residecce of Mr. Lonofworth. of Cincinnati, Ohio. * * *. 

 Downinof (Fruit and F. trees of Am.) said "it is most likely a foreign sort, and except 

 in a few localities, a sandy soil and a mild climate, it is not likely to succeed."' But 

 Geo. W. Campbell, whom we have to thank for valuable information on this and many 

 otlier varieties, says : " I always considered the Ohio or Segar-Box, from its fruit, habit 

 of growth and foliage, as of the same family as Herbemont, Lenoir, Elsinburgh. and 

 that class of small, black, southern grapes." -■ * *. A few vines sent years ago, 

 under the names of "Jaques" or "Ohio," to France, by P. J. Berckmans, of Georgia, 

 proved very tine and valuable, perfectly resisting Phylloxera, having remained healthy 

 in the midst of vineyards destroyed by the root louse. This attracted great attention 



* Les Vignes Amcricaines ; leur Culture ; leur Resistance au Phylloxera, Paris, 1875. 

 it Bushberg Illustrated Catalogue, 1875. 



