510 Select Plants for Industrial Culture and 



Vitis Chantinl, Lecard. 



From Guinea and Senegambia to Abyssinia, ascending to 5,000 

 feet. A tall rampant species, producing tubers. Berries edible. 

 V. Faidherbii and V. Hardyi are varieties [Planchon]. Allied to 

 this species is also V. asarifolia (Baker) from the White Nile and 

 Zanzibar. 



Vitis cinerea, Engelmann. 



Valley of the Middle and Lower Mississipi. Of near affinity to 

 Y. asstivalis. A large vine. Resists Phylloxera. Some hybrids 

 from this serve well for stock to graft 011 [Millardet]. 



Vitis cordifolia, Michaux.* 



The Winter-Grape or Frost-Grape. From Canada to Florida. 

 A very large deciduous vine. The scent of the flowers reminds of 

 Reseda. The berries are small, either blackish or amber-colored 

 and very acid. They can be used for preserves, and are only fully 

 matured when touched by frost. A succession of seedlings may 

 give as a superior vine, with the recommendation of particular 

 hardiness ; this species developes however also well in rather warm 

 climes, and bears even considerable dryness. It thrives, like V. 

 monticola, under the tropic of Capricorn in Queensland [J. S. 

 Edgar]. Resists the attacks of Phylloxera very well, and seems 

 also safe against mildew [Professor Millardet]. 



Vitis hypoglauca, F. v. Mueller. 



East-Australia, as far south as Gippsland. An evergreen 

 climber of enormous length, forming a very stout stem in age. 

 The black berries attain the size of small cherries. This species 

 also may perhaps be vastly changed in its fruit by continued 

 culture. Bears slight frost ; but it is best in cool climes, to keep 

 seedlings for two or three years under shelter, so that sufficient 

 increment and induration of the woody stem takes place for its 

 resisting subsequently some frost, a remark applying to many other 

 kinds of plants to be acclimatised. 



Vitis Indica, Linne. 



On the mountains of various parts of India, ascending 

 to an altitude of 3,000 feet in Ceylon. The small berries 

 are edible. The plant should be subjected to horticultural 

 experiments. This is an apt opportunity, to draw attention 

 to some of the various Indian species of Vitis with large 

 edible berries for instance, V. loevigata (Blume), V. thyrsiflora 

 (Miquel), V. mutabilis (Blume), V. Blumeana (Steudel), all from 

 the mountains of Java, and all producing berries as large as 

 cherries, those of V. Blumeana being particularly sweet. Further 

 may here be inserted V. imperialis (Miquel) from Borneo, V. auri- 

 culata and V. elongata (Wallich), the latter two from the moun- 



