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of his neighbors and honored by every countryman who 

 grows or eats a grape. It is a pregnant type, and has 

 given rise to no less than fifty honorable seedlings, 

 which range in color from greenish white to purple- 

 black. It is the one most important type of American 

 grapes, and the really successful commercial viticulture 

 of the country dates from its dissemination ; and yet 

 this grape is a pure native fox -grape, and evidently 

 only twice removed from the wild vine. If such humble 

 parentage is capable of developing such an enormous 

 industry, what may we not expect for the future ! 



The Concord, as we have said, has given us a most 

 extensive and interesting progeny. Some of its off- 

 spring are Worden, Moore Early, Pocklington, Eaton 

 and Rockland. Of all the Concord seedlings, the most 

 famous is the Worden, which originated at Minetto, 

 Oswego county, New York, on the grounds of Schuyler 

 Worden, who, although over ninety years of age, still 

 takes the liveliest interest in the variety. The old 

 vine, about thirty-five years old at this writing (1898), 

 is still healthy and productive. The seed from which 

 it came was taken from an isolated Concord vine, 

 and the plant bore at four years from the seed. The 

 variety was named by J. A. Place, a prominent citizen 

 of Oswego and an acquaintance of Worden. 



While all these types were developing from the 

 fox-grape, Vitis Labrnsca (Fig. 11), another native 

 grape of the North had given valuable offspring. This 

 is the river -bank grape, Vitis vulpina ( Vitis riparia of 

 the botanies) (Fig. 15). "In the year 1821," writes 

 W. C. Strong, in his "Culture of the Grape," "Hon. 

 Hugh White, then in the junior class in Hamilton 

 College, New York, planted a seedling vine in the 



