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ones, like New York and Virginia ; some of his varieties, a 

 little too late here, have been pronounced there, to be the best 

 hardy grapes ever grown in those parts. These varieties, some 

 forty or more were produced by hybridizing one of our best 

 and earliest wild grape, known as the " Mammoth," belonging 

 to the species (Vitis Labrusca) with two of the earliest of the 

 foreign species (V. Vinifera) known as Black Hamburg, and 

 White Chasselas, and the change from the wild type in the new 

 seedlings is immense, and apparent to the commonest observer; 

 the new varieties having none of the foxy odor, peculiar to 

 the native parent from which the seed was taken, and resemb- 

 ling in size, color, and delicacy of fruit, the foreign, and the 

 berries like this species having the property of not dropping. 

 The few which were crossed with the Chasselas, have much of 

 the character of this sort, not one of the seedling's coming 

 black in color like those raised from fertilizing with the Ham- 

 burg. 



Mr. E,. has again crossed some of his present varieties v/ith 

 the foreign, a few of which have borne fruit ; the fruit and 

 foliage of these prove beyond the doubts of the most skeptical, 

 the certainty of raising new grapes by this process. Another 

 fact which we think is very strong evidence, is the character of 

 the blossoms. It is well known to botanists, that all the 

 American species of grapes are what is technically termed di- 

 pecious, polygamous ; that is, that some vines are staminate and 

 never bear, others have perfect blossoms and produce f/uit. If 

 we attempt to raise seedlings from our wild grapes, about one 

 half or a large proportion usually prove barren, never producing 

 anything but blossoms ; anyone accustomed to examine these can 

 tell when in flower, the fruiting from the staminate portion, these 

 show large clusters of blossoms but no fruit follows. With the 

 foreign species, it is different ; here the male or barren plant is 

 not known, all the seedlings from these are fruit bearino- vines 

 and the fact that Mr. Eogers has never had an 7mfruitful plant 

 among upwards of forty varieties which have borne is strong 

 evidence, without any other, of their being hybrids, inheriting 



