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 THE GRAPE 



THE FOX GRAPE {VlUs LobrUSCO) 



SUMMER GRAPE {ViUs aestivalis) 

 EROST GRAPE {VUis coi'difolia) 

 EUROPEAN GRAPE {Yitis vinifcm) 



The grape, from its healthfulness, the large range 

 of the country over which it flourishes and its large 

 products, may be placed next in importance to the apple. 

 The area planted is somewhere between 400,000 and 

 500,000 acres, of which about one-half is in California. 

 The number of vines planted is given in the last census 

 reports as 200,000,000 and the yield of fruit as 1,144,- 

 278,000 pounds. The largest closely planted grape area 

 in the world is claimed to be that of the "Lake Shore 

 Grape Belt,^' a tract extending from Brocton, ^. Y., to 

 Sandusky, 0., and from Lake Erie to Lake Chautauqua. 

 This fruit is of especial importance, because of the 

 success attained in growing it in the home garden on 

 the south side of fences, walls and buildings* 



ORIGIN AND HISTORY 



There are about twenty species of the grape in the 

 United , States, but all of the varieties of any importance 

 in cultivation have come from the four above mentioned 

 species. In 1820 only one or two of the varieties now 

 cultivated were known in any section of this country, 

 and all of the especially valuable kinds have been pro- 

 duced within forty or fifty years. A few fairly good 



