248 THE GRAPE. 



SCUPPERNONG. 



Fox Grape, of tJie South, I American Muscadine, of the South, 

 Bull or Bullet, " | Roanoke, " 



A distinct southern species, vitis vulpina, too tender for the north, 

 highly esteemed throughout the entire southern States, where it is 

 much grown as a wine grape in vineyards, and is found wild from 

 Yii'ginia to Florida. 



Species, dioecious ; leaves, small, roundish, coarsely serrated, glos- 

 sy on both sides ; young shoots slender, old wood smooth. The 

 White and Black varieties differ only in the color of fruit, the White 

 being liojht green, and the Black, dark red, with tendrils of vine cor- 

 responding with color of fruit. 



Bunches, small, loose ; berries, round, large ; sJcin, thick ; fleshy 

 pulpy, juicy, sweet, with a strong musky scent. 



Minor's Seedling, Shurtleff's Seedling, and some others are culti- 

 vated in localities, but their good qualities seem destined to remain 

 in circumscribed limits, not having yet been seen, when cultivated 

 away from their first friends 



From the ad-interim reports of the Pennsylvania Hort. Society we 

 copy the following accounts of two new seedlings : 



From William Canhy, Wilmington, Delaware : — A Seedling 

 Grape. Bunch, four and a half inches long, by two and three-quar- 

 ters broad, so compact as frequently to destroy the rotundity of the 

 berry ; berry, from seven-sixteenths to nine-sixteenths of an inch in 

 diameter ; roundish, inclining to oval ; skin, of a violet color, thickly 

 covered with bloom, and semi-diaphanous ; seed, small, dark cinna- 

 mon ; flesh, tender, very juicy, not pulpy ; flavor, sweet and pleasant ; 

 quality " best " for a grape that will grow in open culture. Leaf^ 

 trilobed, but not deeply, interruptedly serrulate, auriculate. 



From Gerhard Schmitz : — A Seedling Grape. Large ; oval ; pur- 

 ple ; bunches, loose, large ; resembles the Isabella in ap]>earance and 

 flavor ; quite equal to it in quality, and perhaps a little earlier. 



