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species from which these come are the Vinifera, Berlafidieri, Bounjuifi- 

 ia?ia, Candicans, C/iampini, Doaniana, and Rupestris. Some varieties 

 are named. 



V. Vifiifera, an Asiastic species giving rise to the Muscats, Chasse- 

 las, Tokay, Malaga, etc. 



V. Berlandieri, of S. W. Texas, has no pure varieties generally in 

 cultivation, but has been hybridized with Vinifera to some extent. 



V. Bourquiniatia, furnishes the Cunningham, Devereux, Elsinburgh, 

 Harwood, Herbemont, Lenoir, Louisiana, etc. 



V. Candicans, the Texas Mustang grape has no pure varieties in cul- 

 tivation. A hybrid of Elvira with it, — the Elvicand, grows well in quite 

 limy soils, and a hybrid of Elvicand with Brilliant, flourishes in very limy 

 soils. 



V. Champitii, native of Central Texas, is in cultivation in pure form 

 only as a graft stock, on account of its success in limy adobe, droughty 

 soils and to resist the Phylloxera, and the Anaheim Disease of California. 

 It enters into the Lukfata, a hybrid with Moore Early, a grape equally good 

 as Moore Early and succeeding in limy soils, also into the Champanel, a 

 hybrid with Worden, likewise well adopted to moderately limy soils. 



V. Doa7iiana, native of the Texas Pan Handle region. In cultiva- 

 tion only as a graft stock, possessing very similar qualities with Champini, 

 but capable of enduring greater cold. 



V. Rupestris, native of Texas, Ind. Ter., and Missouri in limy soils 

 in the gravelly beds of small streams, where its roots can reach perpetual 

 moisture. No pure varieties in cultivation, except as graft stocks. It 

 enters into many hybrids in the U S. with V. Lincecumii, such as Jaegers 

 No. 70, and the America, Manito, Mericadel, Cloeta, Captain and others, 

 all of which succeed well in moderately limy soil. The French have used 

 it extensively as a stock in limy soils, and in numerous hybrids with Vini- 

 fera, both for direct producers of wine grapes, and for graft stocks. 



All the species native in limy soils, succeed well also in sandy soils, 

 and the hybrids among themselves, succeed well in both limy and sandy 

 soils. 



The hybrids between the species native of limy lands and those native 

 of sandy lands are generally more capable of thriving in limy land than are 

 the pure blood sandy land grapes, but much less successful in very limy 

 lands, than the pure blood limy land varieties. We have examples among 

 the Rogers Hybrids in Delaware, in Catawba (Labrusca x Vinifera) and 

 many hybrids produced by the writer, such as Carman, Muench, Brilliant, 

 Headlight, Wapanuka, etc. Some of these hybrids endure much more 

 lime than others. Among Roger's Hybrids, the Goethe will endure as 

 much as 50 per cent of carbonate of lime in the soil without chlorosing. So 



