28 JEstivalis. 



BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 



Fig. 44. 

 VITIS AESTIVALIS. (Summer Grape,) Michaux. 



nearly everyone who knows anything of 

 grapes knows the native summer grape.* 



* V. jEstivai^is. {See Dr. Engelniann's Classification, 

 page 15 in this edition). While we no-longer retain with 

 V. JEstivalis the form distinguished by Buckley, and 

 after him by Munson, as V. Lincecumii, we still consider 

 the varieties of the Herbemont and Lenoir class as be- 

 ing comprised in oui' ^Estivalis species, its southern 

 group, until the wild plant from which these varieties 

 might have sprung will be definitely known. The follow- 

 ing Viticultural remarks from our third edition of this 

 catalogue apply to both its northei-n and southern group: 



ViTis ^T^STIVAMS. — This species is preeminent- 

 ly the WINK ^rape of the South Athintic States, 

 and of the lower Mississippi Valley and Texas. 

 . . . The berries are destitute of pulp, and the 

 juice contains a larger percentage of sugar than 

 any other improved American species. The foli- 

 age is not so liable to disease as that of the fox 

 grape, and in the berries rot is also less prevail- 

 ing, while in some varieties of this class, as Nor- 

 ton's Virginia and Cynthiana, it is comparatively 

 unknown. Some of the best wines made in thia 

 country are produced from varieties of thi& 



