VITIS BOUBQUDflANJ g3 



Vitis mstivalis and the European wine-grape It is 

 very likely thai some of these varieties, perhaps even 

 !'- Herbemonl itself, may have been brought from 

 Enro fi 1,,lt lf Wl records had been made of the earlv 

 introductions of American plants in,,, southern Europe 

 W 0m> returning of the emigrant ships and by other 

 vessels, it is equally likely that we should find that 

 our native summer-grape had been sent to the Old 

 World. At all events, it is unassumable that a Dative 

 grape, distributed through the Mediterranean region 

 could have escaped for centuries the critical search of 

 European botanists and the knowledge of hundreds of 

 generations of vignerons, to be discovered al last trans- 

 P lanted "' the New World. This southern family of 

 wine-grapes is not further removed from Vitis mstivalis 

 ,ll:,n r1 "- Conc °rd and some other common fox-grapes 



?2 rem0 ?i f T Vitis L "'' r """ : ftnd ""• botanical 

 T^resof the family seem tome to be distinctly those 



? UU *"**"»H: Mr. Munson has raised plants which 



be considers to belong to his Vitis Bourquinianu from 



N Ull " h he obtai «ed from Spain; but the speci- 



;""; ,s ull /" h ] have "■*» '"• these plan,, seem to me 

 ".' !"/ " uly formfi of the European wine-grape, Vitis 



still another native grape must have a conspicuous 



'; '" thl > —>■ II is the Scuppernong, a direct 



°™P™eol the curious Muscadine grape ( Vitis rotun- 



1 17) - «'«• tho South. I, is said that the 



»cnppernong was discovered on Roanoke Island, North 



Sir Walter Raleigh's colony, and that the 



