GREAT OPPORTUNITIES IN 

 THE GRAPE 



GENERATIONS OF GRAPE EXPERIMENTS 

 HELP Us 



THE grape is the patrician among climbing 

 plants as the strawberry is among trailers. 

 The family to which it belongs is one of 

 the smallest, as regards number of species, among 

 plant tribes. But it is an oligarchy having very 

 great distinction. What the membership lacks 

 in numbers it makes up in quality. The grape 

 is known everywhere and has been cultivated by 

 man from the earliest times. Doubtless as much 

 attention has been given to it as to any other 

 tribe of plants. Indeed there may be no other 

 that can compete with it in this regard. 



Of course the main reason for the extreme 

 favor shown the grape by man has been all along 

 the capacity of the plant to produce a fruit hav- 

 ing a juice of unique quality. 



It is as a producer of wine rather than as a 

 producer of fruit for the table that the vine has 



