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Fruit ripens slightly before Concord, keeps and ships well. Clusters medium to 

 large, rather short and broad, tapering to cylindrical, frequently heavily single-shoul- 

 dered, compact; peduncle short to medium, thick; pedicel medium to short, thick, 

 covered with few small warts, enlarged at point of attachment to berry; brush short, 

 pale green. Berries large to medium, roundish, very dark red, dull, covered with a 

 medium amount of blue bloom, decidedly persistent, soft. Skin thick, intermediate 

 in toughness, adheres strongly to the pulp, contains no pigment, astringent. Flesh 

 slightly translucent, juicy, tender, somewhat stringy, moderately fine-grained, inclined 

 to vinous, sprightly, sweet at skin but acid at center, good to very good in quality. 

 Seeds one to six, average four, large, long and broad, blunt, brownish ; raphe shows as 

 a distinct cord-like ridge; chalaza small, roughened and frequently with radiating fur- 

 rows, much above center, variable in shape, distinct. 



SCUPPERNONG.i 



(Rotundifolia.) 



1. Amcr. Fariiur, itji". iSiq. 2. lb., 3:332. 1822. 3. lb., 9:29, 30. 1S27. 4. lb., 9:139. 

 1827. 5. Prince, 1830:167. 6. Ih.. 1830:170. 7. Downing, 1845:258. 8. Horticulturist. 12:457. 

 1S57. 9. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt.. 1857:231. 10. Gar. .Mon., 5:73, 74. 1863. 11. Grape Cult., 1:38, 

 280, 292. 1869. 12. lb., 3:60. 1871. 13. .4m. Pom. Soc. Cat., 1871:16. 14. .4m. Pom. Soc. 

 Rpt., 1881:40, 68, 147. 153, 155. 15. Gar. .Mon., 28:140, 173. 1886. 16. -4/a. Sta. Bui., 29:18. 

 1891. 17. Bush. Cat., 1894:177. fig. 18. .4m. Card., 20:688. 1899. 19. Ga. Sta. Bui.. 53:49, 

 59. 1901. 20. .V. C. Sta. Bui., 187:58, 60. 1903. 21. S. C. Sta. Bui., 132:18. 1907. 



American Muscaditw (5, 10, of the South 7). Bull (9, 17, of the South 7). Bullace (9, 17). 

 BuUel (17. of the South 7). Fox grape of the South (7). Green Scupper.vong (6). Green Mtisca- 

 dine (6). Hickman (3). Hickman (5, 10). Muscaditw (9). Roan'oke (4). Roanoke (5, 10, 17. of 

 the South 7). Scuppenumg (3, 4, 5). White Muscadine (ti, 17). White Scuppernong (5). Wild 

 green Muscadine (6). Yellow Muscadine (17). 



The Scuppemong is preeminently the grape of the South. It is the 

 chief representative of the great species Vitis rotundifolia, whicli runs riot 

 in natural luxuriance from Delaware and Maryland to the Gulf, and west- 

 ward from the Atlantic to Arkansas and Texas. The name Scuppemong 

 was taken from the Indians and is now common in tlie geography of North 



' In the eastern portion <<l the Southern States, the section where this variety originated and 

 where it is still most largely grown, Scuppemong is applied only to a white variety of Vitis rotutidi- 

 folia. Unfortunately in many portions of the South and in the North, the word Scuppemong is 

 apparently taken as meaning a grape of the southern Fox or Rotundifolia class; thus we find some 

 writers using such contradictory expressions as White Scuppemong, Green Scuppemong and Black 

 Scuppemong. In the South, at least, this use of the term appears to have arisen in the last fifty 

 years, usage previous to that time being practically unanimous in recognizing that the Scuppemong 

 was the white Rotundifolia which had been selected at an early day for cultivation on account of 

 certain superior cultural characters distinguishing it from the rest of the specie.. 



