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that their juice is of a light flesh color, inclining to 

 a white. I once saw a spontaneous white bunch 

 grape in Carolina ; but the cattle browzing on the 

 sprouts thereof in the spring it died. Of those 

 which we call fox grapes, we have four sorts ; two 

 whereof are called summer grapes, because ripe 

 in July ; the other two winter fruits, because not 

 ripe till September or October. The summer fox 

 grapes grow not in clusters or great bunches, but 

 are about five or six in a bunch, about the bigness 

 of a damson or larger. The black sort are fre- 

 quent, the white not so commonly found. They 

 always grow in swamps and low, moist lands, run- 

 ning sometimes very high and being shady, and 

 therefore proper for arbours. They afford the lar- 

 gest leaf I ever saw to my remembrance, the back 

 of which is of a white horse flesh color. This 

 fruit always ripens in the shade. I have trans- 

 planted them into my orchard and find they thrive 

 well, if manured. A neighbor of mine has done 

 the same ; mine were by slips, his from the roots, 

 which thrive to admiration, and bear fruit, though 

 not so juicy as the European grape, but of a glu- 

 tinous nature. However it is pleasant enough to 

 eat. 



The other winter fox grapes are much of the 

 same bigness. These refuse no ground, swampy 

 or dry, but grow plentifully on the sand hills along 

 the sea coast and elsewherf , and are great bearers. 

 I have seen near twelve bushels upon one vine of 

 the black sort. Some of these, when thoroughly 



