172 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



CATAWBA. 



If the Isabella was the mother of Ameri 

 can grape culture, the Catawba may be re 

 garded as the mother of American wine mak 

 ing. It has performed its mission equally 

 well ; it has done, indeed, all that it is 



Fig. 100. Leaf of Catawba. 



capable of doing, and might now very well 

 be laid aside as a pleasant memory, while its 

 place is filled by others better fitted to per 

 fect the work it so well began. The Catawba 

 had its origin in the South. Whatever of 

 goodness the Isabella may have is found in 



