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above the ocean and to the nature of their fruits we are almost utterly 

 without data. An herbaceous species of a tuberous vine, occurring 

 in Soudan, is recommended by Mr. Lecard ; another tuberous species 

 (V. Martini, Planchon) is noted by Mr. J. B. Martin as wild in 

 Cochin-China, the herbaceous stems being reproduced annually from 

 the roots ; both kinds bear excellent grapes ; the species from 

 Cochin-China forms long shoots, sometimes to a length of 60~and 

 exceptionally 150 feet, bearing grapes all along the branches. 

 Occasionally more than a cwt. of grapes is obtained from one plant, 

 according to General Haldeman. It would be a grand acquisition. 

 to tropical countries ; its ripe grapes are produced successively 

 through fully three months ; the berries are very large. 



Vitis Labrusca, Linne. 



The Fox-Grape. North -America, from Middle Canada to Texas 

 and Florida, also in Japan. A pale-fruited variety furnishes the 

 Eland's Grape ; another yields the American Alexander-Grape 

 [Torrey and Gray]. The Schuylkill, Concord, Catawba, Isabella, 

 Martha, Ives-Seedling, Hartford-Prolific, and a number of other less 

 known varieties are also derived from this species. Among these the 

 Concord takes the first rank as well for wine as for dessert-grapes in 

 the Eastern United States, where it is cultivated more than all the 

 other varieties put together, although it has a strong so-called foxy 

 taste. It is not quite proof against the attacks of the Phylloxera 

 vastatrix, but suffers less than most other varieties of this species 

 [Planchon, Vignes, Americaines]. Many good and fertile crosses 

 between V. Labrusca and V. vinifera occur in North-American 

 cultivation ; the Delaware-Grape is a hybrid from V. Labrusca 

 according to Bush and Meissner, and has in its turn given rise to 

 many other good crosses. The berries of V. Labrusca are large 

 among American kinds, and are of pleasant taste. Flowers fragrant. 

 This must be the species which was found already by the Greenlanders 

 who formed the Scandinavian settlement in Eastern North- America, 

 long before Columbus' time, and who called the region where they 

 saw this Vitis " Vinland," but Vitis cordifolia reaches still further 

 north, without, however, yielding good grapes ; V. riparia also grows 

 wild further north. It is the only species which thrives well and 

 bears largely in the clime of Brisbane, according to Dr. Bancroft, so 

 far as hitherto ascertained. This and the other hardy North- 

 American vines seem never to be attacked by the Oidium-disease. 

 Dr. Regel unites the South-Asiatic V. lanata (Roxburgh) with this. 



Vitis riparia, Michaux.* ( V. cordifolia var. riparia, A. Gray.) 



From Canada and the Central United States to the Rocky Mountains 

 of Colorado, reaching naturally 52 north latitude, thus the most 

 hardy of all American Grape-vines. No other species will endure a 

 greater range of temperature, it encountering in some parts of Canada 

 a mean annual temperature of only about 34 F., where, however, a 



