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I have also reared a great variety of seedlings from the cul- 

 tivated kinds, both native and exotic ; these have not yet fruited, 

 but when of sufficient age may be expected to produce a great 

 diversity. Among them are a number from the Isabella, a part 

 of which are from seeds impregnated by the Bland and the 

 Meunier ; others from the Alexander, Bland, Meunier, White 

 Rochelle, White and Red Malaga, White and Black Scupper- 

 nong, Nazro, Scott's, Troy vine, and from Gimb rede's Fox 

 grapes of the sorts exhibited to the Horticultural Society. 



GENERAL REMARKS. 



I have now completed the descriptive list of American vines, 

 as far as could be done consistently with the present state of 

 knowledge on the subject, and the precision and accuracy 

 required. In doing this, no vine has been knowingly de- 

 scribed under different heads or distinct titles ; but on the con- 

 trary, all the claims to a separate origin and to peculiarity 

 of character, have been examined doubtingly, from a desire to 

 curtail the nomenclature, and to restrain it within correct 

 bounds. It is however very possible, and even probable, that 

 future examinations of those kinds but recently received from 

 such numerous sources in the wide spread regions of our land, 

 and which have in most instances never been submitted to a 

 comparison with each other, may by a critical investigation of 

 the particular properties of each, prove many which are now 

 deemed distinct varieties, to be so similar as to ideutify them 

 with each other, and consequently to render it necessary and 

 proper to unite them under the same heads. 



With regard to the synonymse, the greatest perspicuity has 

 been exercised, and that part has been rendered as perfect as 

 the circumstances would admit ; and although, future experience 

 may considerably modify that portion of the nomenclature, 

 the arrangement so far as at present perfected, will I think 

 add greatly to the diffusion of a correct knowledge of the re- 

 spective varieties, and to the identity of such as have been 

 hitherto considered distinct from each other. 



