DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. 239 



chusetts White, and hosts of others, are just such grapes 

 as are found in almost all the woods of the Eastern States. 



There is a greater or less number of varieties belonging 

 to each of the native species of the grape, therefore it caii 

 readily be seen what an easy matter it would be to make 

 up a long list of names of varieties, without, perhaps, hav- 

 ing a single kind among the whole that would be worth 

 cultivating, and still they might all be more or less distinct. 



Foreign varieties are often given a new name and sent 

 out as new native grapes. They are mostly of the Sweet 

 Water or Chasselas varieties, as these usually succeed 

 better than those of the Hamburgh and Muscat; but 

 they are on the whole entirely unsuited to our climate, 

 although in a few isolated locations they will sometimes 

 succeed very well for a time. Another method of increas- 

 ing varieties, which is almost as disreputable as the last, 

 is that of raising seedlings from foreign varieties and pass- 

 ing them off as native. These are really nothing more 

 than foreign varieties, and growing them from seed does 

 not make them native grapes. Among this latter class we 

 have the Brinkle, Merritt's Seedling, Canadian Chief, 

 Childs' Superb, El Paso, and a number of others which I 

 forbear to mention, as enough have been enumerated to 

 give the reader an idea of the caution and fortitude which 

 he will need in establishing a vineyard of even the most 

 moderate extent. 



