GRAPE FAMILY 



The Riverside Grape is well known to all who live 

 in the Middle West, for it festoons the thickets on the 

 river banks, where it often takes entire possession of 

 a tree; it clambers over the fences along the road- 

 way, and is probably the most wide-spread of America's 

 native Grapes. The leaves are medium to large, cor- 

 date-ovate, mostly showing a 

 tendency to three lobes, more 

 or less deep; the margins vari- 

 ously toothed and cut. The fruit 

 clusters are much branched and 

 often compound. The Clinton 

 Grape is referred to the River- 

 side Grape. 



The Frost- Grape, vUis cordifo- 

 lia, is a vine of luxuriant growth 

 found in moist thickets and 

 along streams. Stem smooth, 

 tendrils forked and intermittent. 

 Berries, black and shining, ripening after the frost. 

 Often called in the country Chicken Grape, because the 

 berries are sought by chickens when the plant grows 

 about the farmhouse. 



Riverside Grape. Vitis 

 vulpina 



NORTHERN FOX-GRAPE 



Vitis lahrusca 



One of our common wild Grapes and the parent of the 

 Concord and other cultivated varieties. Found in 

 thickets on moist ground in New England, eastern New 

 York, and southward to Georgia and Tennessee. Blooms 

 in May and June and fruits in August and September. 



Stem. — Woody, climbing by tendrils, with watery 

 and acid juice; bark loose and shreddy; young shoots 



