VERDELHO. Vigorous, healthy, cluster and berry large, berry ovoid, yellowish, meaty, 

 juicy, a fine table variety. 



VIOLET CHASSELAS. Vigorous, clusters and berries large, berry ovoid, violet, beautiful, 

 excellent quality, meaty, a fairly good shipper ; ripens early. 



The above named exotic grapes, if grafted upon the good resistant native grape roots, and . 

 the vines carefully sprayed with Bordeaux Mixture, (page 236) will succeed all through the 

 South to about the 35th parallel. In the northern parts of this region, winter protection will 

 be needed. A covering of straw, leaves, stocks or weeds will be sufficient. In the moister 

 regions it will be much more difficult to succeed with these kinds than in the arid regions, 

 and their quality will be much better in the drier parts. This class of grapes is extensively and 

 very profitably grown along the Pecos River and near El Paso, Texas, without trellising, on the 

 stub-system as used in California, but in the moister regions will require trellising. 



Vinifera-Bourquiniana Hybrids 



OLIVONTA, T. V. M. 1899. ( ' T \) (Olivett de Cadinet x Herbemont). (The Olivette 

 de Cadinet is an Italian variety, having very fine clusters of large ovoid black berries of high 

 quality, with a healthy but not a very robust vine, with pistillate flowers.) Vine of good vigor, 

 much resembles Herbemont; healthy and a good bearer; cluster medium, compact, much resem- 

 bling the Petit Syrah, but is larger, handsomer and ripens evenly, which the Petit Syrah does 

 not, in all seasons; berries black ovoid, a little under medium; skin thin, tough; flesh tender, 

 melting, juicy, the juice being red, of pure, high quality, better decidedly than Petit Syrah, and 

 promises to be a better wine grape than that famous variety. (See Plate LXXXIII., page 207.) 



Vulpina Varieties 



There have been introduced no pure Vulpina varieties of any commercial value, and only 

 one, ever successfully used as a mother breeder, from which varieties of any value were produced. 

 Such one was found wild by Mr. Louis Suelter, of Carver, Minn., near that place. It was a white, 

 or yellowish-white, variety, the only wild white variety of the species reported so far as I know. 

 He pollenized it with Concord pollen, from which hybridized seed he grew a number of black 

 varieties of medium size, similar to each other, ripening very early. The vines were vigorous 

 and healthy and perfectly endured 40 below zero in Minnesota. Four varieties were named as 

 follows: Beta, Dakota, Monitor, Suelter, all these except Suelter had ascending or erect stamens, 

 bloomed about the 20th to 25th of April, and ripened very early, about June 25th to July 1st, 

 at Denison, Texas, and were passably good for very early kinds, but the Texas climate was too 

 hot and dry for them and they all died within six to eight years. This is a suggestion and a 

 starter for development of a race of exceeding hardy varieties for the cold Northwest. 



Vulpina-Vinifera Hybrids 



OHIO (Syn. Cigar Box). From some grape-cuttings left in a cigar box at the residence of 

 the elder Longworth of Cincinnati, some vines were grown, which attracted attention, and became 

 scatteringly disseminated, and confused in description with the Lenoir by writers on grapes, and 

 put down by some as a synonym of it (see Bushberg Manual, pp. 164-5). Having obtained vines 

 of this from Mr. Elbert Wakeman, of Millneck, L. I., obtained by him from Mr. G. W. Campbell, 

 of Ohio, I have carefully studied it and find, beyond doubt, that it is a Vulpina (Riparia) x 

 Vinifera hybrid, that, in general aspect, would be easily mistaken for a variety of the "Southern 

 ^Estivalis" class (V . Bourquiniana), where Mr. Isidor Bush placed it. At first glance, the vine 

 in foliage reminds one of Lenoir, but the analysis quickly shows it to be really widely different. 

 It has a stocky, healthy, short-jointed growth, leaves medium with deep-cut large teeth, blooms 

 early, ripens early; cluster medium to large, conical, compact; berries medium or below, black, 

 round, skin thin, tough, pulp tender, spicy, juicy, juice bright red, quality excellent. This dis- 

 covery reveals what may prove of great value in the North as a basis for great improvement of 

 the Labrusca varieties. 



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