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the woods in South Carolina in 1802. There are, no 

 doubt, as good forms of the native fox -grape in the 

 woods now as there were then, but we have now ob- 

 tained a start in grape -growing, and we are no longer 

 looking to the wild for our varieties. The fox -grape 

 is known to be widely variable in its wild state, and I 

 have this year obtained no less than half a dozen types 

 of large and handsome wild fruits of it, varying from 

 deep purple to amber -red. The Concord was a 

 chance seedling in a Massachusetts garden, and it is 

 supposed to have sprung from the wild fox -grape of 

 the neighborhood. The Worden was raised from a 

 seed of the Concord. The Delaware was found in the 

 garden of a Frenchman in New Jersey, about fifty 

 years ago, but its genesis is wholly unknown. It is 

 probably a product of an accidental cross between the 

 European grape which the Frenchman cultivated 

 and some variety of native grape. The Brighton is 

 the product of a hand cross between the Concord 

 and the Diana-Hamburg (the latter itself a hybrid) 

 by Jacob Moore, then of Brighton, N. Y. The Diana, 

 which was a prominent variety for many years, 

 was grown from a Catawba seed in Milton, Mass. 

 Moore's Early was grown from a seed of the Concord. 

 The Clinton came up where a handful of grape seed 

 was sown at Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., and 

 the old vine, now about seventy-five years old, is still 

 growing on College Hill. The Norton's Virginia was 

 found wild in 1835, near Richmond, Va. The Isabella 

 was brought into the North early in the century. Its 

 origin is wholly unknown, and has been the subject of 

 much speculation. The botanical evidence shows that 

 it is probably a native form of the fox -grape. All 



