In its pure form it grows with difficulty from cuttings, with rare exceptions, one of which is 

 found in a fine bearing variety received from Arkansas which propagates fairly well in this way. 

 Mr. H. Jaeger made a most delicious red wine from this species. Its purity of quality, fine prop- 

 erties of vine, large cluster, furnish a good basis for growing a race of grapes suited to low moist 

 lands where mildew and rot destroy most varieties in cultivation, and in the South would give 

 grapes from August to November, where, until recently, we have had only Muscadines in 

 cultivation. 



It is often found naturally hybridized with V. Lincecumii and V. cordifolia, rarely with 

 V. rupestris in Southwestern Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas; very seldom with V.candicans 

 in Texas, abundantly with V. (zstivalis and V. cordifolia, in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, etc., and 

 rarely with V. labrusca, in the South Altantic States. The writer has two hybrids of it with 

 V. Lincecumii, "var. glauca, from Southwestern Missouri, which are free from disease, and larger and 

 better than Cynthiana, and very prolific, but have reflexed stamens. It has been hybridized with 

 V. rupestris, by Prof. A. Millardet, of Bordeaux, France, which combination produces a very 

 excellent stock. The most northern point it is reported is near Canton, Fulton Co., Illinois, 

 and in the southern part of that county the writer has seen it abundantly, with V. cordifolia, 

 V. bicolor, and V. vulpina. It grows abundantly along the Mississippi and Missouri River banks, 

 in Eastern Missouri bottom lands, on all streams from Missouri River to the Gulf, east of the 

 Brazos River and through the Lower Mississippi Valley. 



I found a very tomentose form abundant on the Rio Grande near Del Rio, Texas, but 

 nowhere between there and the Brazos. In Southern Georgia and Florida, it runs into a variety 

 with rusty colored young shoots, and having very large, compound clusters of generally smaller, 

 more acid berries than are found farther north, the peduncles are exceedingly long. This variety 

 has been taken for V. Caribcea by some botanists. It approaches that species more closely than 

 any other of our species. 



I have noted as V. cinerea, var. Floridana, Munson, with the following synonyms : 

 V. Carib&a, Engelmann, and Curtiss, Bushberg Cat., p. 15, 1883. 

 V. Caribcea, Millardet, Especes des Vignes, p. 231. 

 V. Simpsoni, Munson, Proceedings S. P. A. S., 1887, p. 59. 



Having grown numerous fully developed, fruiting vines of this form, it proves to be identical 

 with V . cinerea, Engelm., except that the young tips are always red, rusty, tomentose, and the lower 

 surface of leaves rusty cinereous, instead of light cinereous, as in more western and northern 

 forms, and is very much less enduring in cold than the more northern form. 



Leaf-folder defoliates it at Denison, Texas; difficult of propagation from cuttings. 

 This variety has been found by J. H. Simpson (the discoverer of its distinct character), 

 naturally hybridized with V. coriacea, V. Simpsoni, and V. cordifolia. It is native in Florida 

 and Southern Georgia, proceeding westward along the Gulf Coast and northward, gradually taking 

 the form of V. cinerea. It is quite probable that the vine reported from Arkansas and described 

 by Durand as V. Caribaa, was this form of V. cinerea. 



The following notes are arranged from Mr. Simpson's pen: 



"The fruit is useless for the table, but would make fair wine. - The best grape I have found 

 in this section was one of its hybrids with V. coriacea, the vine being the most vigorous one I have 

 seen, the bunches and fruit of good size and flavor, ripening earlier than the species pure, an 

 excellent bearer, and I have no doubt if the vine were properly cultivated it would be far superior 

 to any native grape we have in the State. Another hybrid with V. coriacea grows a short distance 

 from it, and might prove valuable in cultivation, though it is later and not so valuable in other 

 respects. This form resembles V. cinerea in many points, in others V. Carib<za, of the West Indies, 

 while there are often vines that resemble V. Simpsoni so much that it takes close observation to 

 tell them apart by the leaves alone. It is very abundant in Southern Florida in the hummock 

 woods and seems to prefer moist land. In some cases the vines grow with crowns but a few inches 



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