REPORT OF SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON GRAPES, 



FOR 1904 



T. V. MUNSON, DENISON, TEX., Chairman 

 ADAPTATION AS TO SOILS 



There are two classes of soils, requiring different varieties of grapes 

 for each for best success, namely : very limy and very sandy soil. Those 

 varieties of grapes derived from species found naturally confined to sandy 

 soils, possessing little lime, do poorly, (the foliage turning yellow 

 chlorosis) when planted in very limy soils, such as the black waxy and 

 adobe soils of the South (especially Texas) and California, when there is 

 50 per cent or more of lime in the soil. To this class belong all pure 

 varieties of labrusca, vulpina, (riparia), aestivalis, bicolor, and 

 linsecomii of which some varieties of each are here mentioned. 



Vitis labrusca : Champion, Columbian, Concord, Cottage, Dra- 

 cut, Amber, Eaton, Hartford, Hayes, Ives, Jaynesville, Lutie, Martha, 

 McPike, Moore Early, Perkins, Pocklington, Vergennes, Woodruff, Wor- 

 den, Wyoming. 



Vitis aestivalis : Norton's Virginia, (Syn. Cynthiana). 



V. bicolor : Kohr and others named by Dr. G. L. Tinker, of New 

 Philadelphia, O., upon which he is endeavoring to build up a new family 

 of grapes for the North especially for wine purposes for which they are 

 very promising. 



V. vulpina : None of pure blood in cultivation, although Clinton and 

 Taylor are commonly so classed. 



V. linsecomii: H. Jaeger's No. 43, Neosho, No. 13, etc., of S. W. 

 Mo., and T. V. Munson's No. i, Early Purple, Lucky, Big Berry, etc. 



Likewise the hybrids of any two or more of the five species just 

 named, of which a few are mentioned here do not succeed well in 

 very limy soils. 



Labrusca x vulpina : Amber, Bacchus, Clinton, Elvira, Etta, Grein's 

 Golden, Marion, Missouri Riesling, Noah, Presly, Taylor. 



Labrusca x aestivalis : Kentucky, a hybrid of Concord, with Norton ; 

 Gold Coin, a hybrid of Norton with Martha ; Ozark, a hybrid of Norton 

 with Concord. 



Linsecomii x labrusca : Beacon, Dr. Collyer, Mansleaf, and others. 



Those varieties of grapes derived from species having their habitat in 

 very limy soils, succeed well in soils having a high percentage of lime. The 



