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THE EVOLUTION OP OUR NATIVE FRUITS 



Grape -growing, as a business, has long since per- 

 ished at Vevay. The vines took sick and would not 

 bear; or if they bore, the fruit rotted before it was 

 ready for the harvest. Only one variety, known as 

 the Cape grape, gave any important return. On the 



Fig. 9. Stone house of John Francis Dufour, Vevay, Indiana. 1895. 



27th of May, 1832 or 1833, a killing frost ruined most 

 of the remaining vineyards, and the Catawba, which 

 was justly becoming famous, was set in the place of 

 the old varieties. But even this took the disease, and 

 grape -growing there soon entered into a decline, from 

 which it has never recovered. 



