THE CONCORD <•> 



of his neighbors and honored by every countryman who 

 grows or eats a grape. Ii is a pregnant type, and has 

 given rise to qo Less than fifty honorable seedlings, 

 which range in color from greenish white to purple- 

 black. It is the one mosl Lmportanl type of American 

 grapes, and the really successful commercial viticulture 

 of the country dates from its dissemination; and yet 

 this grape is a pure Dative fox-grape, and evidently 

 only twice removed from the wild vine, [f such humble 

 parentage is capable of developing such an enormous 

 industry, wh.it may we ool expect for the future! 



The Concord, as we have said, lias given ns a must 

 extensive and interesting progeny. Sonic of its off- 

 spring are Worden, Moore Early, Pocklington, Baton 

 ;ind Rockland. Of all the Concord seedlings, the most 

 famous is the Worden, which originated at Minetto, 

 Oswego county, New York, <»n the grounds of Schuyler 

 Worden, who, although over ninetj years of age, still 

 takes the liveliesl interest in the variety. The old 

 vine, about thirty -five years old at this writing (1898), 

 is .-till healthy and productive. The Beed from which 

 it came was taken from an isolated Concord vine, 

 and the plant bore al tour years from the seed. The 

 variety was named bj J. A. Place, a prominenl citizen 

 of Oswego and an acquaintance of Worden. 



While all these types were developing from the 

 fox-grape, Vitia Labrusca (Fig. 11), another native 

 grape of the North had given valuable offspring. This 

 i- the river-bank grape, Vitia vulpina ' Vitia riparia of 

 the botanies) (Fig. L5). "In the year 1821," writes 

 W, C. Strong, in his "Culture of the Grape," "Hon. 

 Hugh White, then in the junior class in Hamilton 

 College, New York, planted a seedling vine in the 



