26 GRAPE CULTURE AND 



wineries in the world. We have the finest and most uniform 

 climate, the most diversified soil and aspects. Nature has 

 designed this to be the great Vineland, the France of the new 

 Continent, where every one can " sit under his own vine and 

 fig tree." Be ours the happy task to work out this problem, 

 and prove worthy of it, profiting by the errors of the past, 

 with hopes that never flag, of its happy ultimate accom- 

 plishment. 



CHAPTER II. 



CLASSIFICATION OF GRAPES. 



I shall not attempt elaborate descriptions of all the species 

 now found by botanists, as they would be of little practical 

 use to the vineyardist. Suffice it to say, that the late Dr. 

 George Engelmann, one of the keenest observers of nature, 

 found a striking distinction in the seeds, and classified them 

 into fourteen species, in the following order: i. Labrusca 

 or Northern Fox. 2. Candicans or Mustangensis. 3. 

 Carribbea or Caloosa. 4. Californica. 5. Monticola or 

 Mountain Grape. 6. Arizonica. 7. ^stivalis or Summer 

 Grape. 8. Cinerea or Ashy Winter Grape. 9. Cordifolia 

 or Winter Grape. 10. Palmata or Rubra. n. Riparia 

 or River Grape. 12. Rup^stris, Sugar or Bush Grape. 

 13. Vinifera or European Grape. 14. Rotundifolia, Vul- 

 pina or Southern Fox. The accompanying cut will illustrate 

 the form of seeds and natural size of them. 



