HYBRID GRAPES AT GENEVA 



1333 



It was fifty years after the introduction of the Cape grape that 

 the next important development came. Amateurs still continued 

 to grow Vinifera grapes in a limited way, and mainly under 



FIG. 460. SECRETARY SECURED BY CROSSING CLIN- 

 TON, A NATIVE, AND MUSCAT HAMBURG, A VINIFERA 

 VARIETY 



glass. With these grapes at hand, the idea very naturally occurred 

 to several persons to cross this blood upon our native species. 

 Previous to 1850 both Valk and Allen had used Vinifera blood 

 in breeding, but their results were not promising and attracted 



