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of properly chosen varieties may be kept under ordinary home storage 

 conditions until Easter, even when that festival, due to the vagaries of 

 the moon, falls in late April. Thus, since the Concord bore its first fruit 

 in 1849, American varieties have been developed to cover a season 

 excelled in length among Northern fruits by no other fruits than the 

 Apple and the Pear, fruits which attracted pomological notice cen- 

 turies before America was discovered ! 



Among the score or more of Grape species described by botanists 

 several indigenous to America have been used in the origination 

 of the two or three thousand varieties named and disseminated during 

 the past century. The great majority of these have been produced 

 in the Northeastern quarter of the United States and adjacent Canada. 

 Many important ones have been developed in the Mississippi Valley 



Fig. 104. Protecting Grapes from attacks of birds 



and the Southeastern States; many more in Texas, mainly by the 

 late T. V. Munson; others in California and elsewhere. To a large 

 extent these varieties are best adapted to the regions in which they 

 originated; often the Northern varieties fail or do poorly in the South 

 and vice versa. It is, therefore, advisable to bear such points in 

 mind when choosing varieties for planting, first choice being given to 

 varieties known to succeed in the neighborhood or the region in which 

 the vines are to be grown. More than with, perhaps, any other fruit 

 the plants should be purchased from nurseries in the same region so 

 as to get varieties suited to the locality. 



Since the great majority of family fruit planters live in regions 

 where the Northern varieties succeed best a large proportion of the 



