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the coast region. Some of the seedlings of the 

 Flame Tokay are white, some black, some red- 

 dish, some of a blue-gray color. Very few of 

 them resemble the Flame Tokay in form, color 

 or quality of fruit, most of them incline to the 

 round form of the ordinary V. vinifera. 



It is not uncommon to find natural hybrids 

 of the California grape and the European grape 

 growing wild alongside the vineyards. The 

 strains of the California species are in some of 

 the strongest-growing forms of cultivated grapes 

 that are recommended as stocks for the varieties 

 of European grape that are subject to injury 

 from phylloxera. 



WORK WITH STKANGE SPECIES 



Mr. M. K. Seralian, who removed from Pales- 

 tine to America some years ago, secured cut- 

 tings of the best Syrian grapes. The vines from 

 these cuttings have habits of growth not unlike 

 those of the Flame Tokay seedlings planted at 

 the same time, and are now about the same size. 



Among them is one identical with our so- 

 called Sweetwater grape. 



Another was certainly Thompson's Seedless 

 a stray variety renamed since it was imported 

 to California about 1880, and recently identified 

 as Sultanina. It is an extremely productive, 



