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would be violence te suppose that all of them were 

 accidental hybrids with European types which were 



unknown to the region : and there is no more reason 

 to suppose that the Catawba, alone, was a hybrid than 

 to suppose that all the rest of them had a similar im- 

 pure origin. Moreover, we know that the wild Vitis 

 Labrusca is capable <>r producing very many curious 

 and wide variations in its fruit. We musl conclude, 

 therefore, with the great majority of botanists and 

 intelligent grape -growers, that the Catawba grape is a 

 pure native, a reigning wild form of this fox-grape 

 ifi shown in Pig. 11. 



An anonymous correspondent of the "New England 

 Parmer," in March, 1824,— evidently a member of the 

 Rous.- of Representatives— gives the following account 

 of Adlum's vineyard: "A friend and myself, before the 

 meeting of the Eouse this morning, rode to the Vineyard 

 of Mr. Adlum, at Georgetown, three ,„■ four miles from 

 this city. Cor the purpose of obtaining a bundle of slips 



to he forwarded tO the \. V„rk Borticultural Society. 



and by them disposed of as may be deemed proper. 

 I nfortunateh my purpose was defeated to-day by the 

 accidental absence of the proprietor. We however had 

 the pleasure of surveying .Mi-. Adlum's grounds, and of 

 observing his mode f cultivating the vine. Bis vine- 

 yard is in .-. sequestered and lonelj situation, surrounded 

 by hills ami woods, on the banks of Rock Creek, a 

 small branch of the Potomack. Ii is planted on a steep 

 declivity, looking to the south, and covering several 

 Bcre8 - Tl " Boil i^ a lighl loam, stony and moist, the 

 growthaboul it being chiefly white oak. At the lower 

 verge, passes a small brook planted with willows, from 

 which a black vine-dresser was vers busy in plucking 



