248 AMERICAN GRAPE CULTURE. 



through the inosculated cells, the obstructions 

 becoming more formidable as the interior is 

 approached, till at last it is fairly turned back 

 by the impenetrable center, so weakened by its 

 fruitless efforts to overcome the obstacles op- 

 posed to it, that it is incapable of completing 

 its allotted office. This is the general fault of 

 the native, and a complete remedy can only be 

 found in a new structure of the flesh, such as 

 we find begun in the Diana, greatly improved 

 in the Delaware and Allen, and completed in 

 the lona. 



