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The wood of the different varieties of the Scuppernong is 

 very hard, which is doubtless the cause why they do not grow 

 as readily from cuttings as the generality of other vines ; for in 

 most instances those who have pursued this course of culture 

 have met with a total failure. From this circumstance the 

 plants are more scarce in the nurseries than other native kinds. 

 The vines of this species spread their branches to a great extent ; 

 and I have been informed by a gentleman residing near New- 

 bern, North Carolina, that those cultivated in that vicinity, are 

 planted thirty feet from each other. As the flowers of this 

 species expand nearer the period at which European vines pro- 

 duce their flowers than is the case with our natives generally, 

 it offers great advantages for obtaining hybrid varieties by 

 admixture of the pollen. 



There is one remark in respect to seedlings obtained from 

 this grape that I can make from experience as well as from 

 the statements of others, which is, that one plant only in 

 about fifteen or twenty will be of the white variety. 



In regard to the Bullace, which is a synonymous title for 

 this grape, but which I think is often applied equally to the 

 other varieties of this species, a lady correspondent at Che- 

 raw, South Carolina, makes the following remark : " There 

 is one kind of Bullace which I formerly cultivated and thought 

 a delightful fruit. The vine is about twenty miles distant 

 from this place, and from neglect the fruit has become small 

 and is not yet ripe (Sept. 4th.)" 



AMERICAN BLACK MUSCADINE. 



Purple muscadine. Muscadine. 



Wild muscadine. Bullace. 



Bull, and Bullet grape, 



Vitis rotundifdia, var. 



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This vine is a variety of the same species as the preceding, 

 but not of equal quality. It and the succeeding variety are 



