ORIGIN OF GRAPES 155 



the woods in Smith Carolina in 1802. There are, do 

 donbt, as good forms of the native fox -grape in tin- 

 woods now as there were then, but we have now ob- 

 tained a start in grape -growing, and we are no Longer 

 looking to the wild for our varieties. The fox-grape 

 i- known to be widely variable in its wild state, and I 

 have this year obtained do Less than half a dozen types 

 of Large and handsome wild fruits of it, varying from 

 deep purple to amber-red. The Concord was a 

 chance seedling in a Massachusetts garden, and it is 

 Bupposed to have sprung from the wild fox-grape of 

 the neighborhood. The Worden was raised from a 

 Beed of the Concord. The Delaware waa found in the 

 garden of a Frenchman in New Jersey, aboul ftftj 

 - ago, hut its genesis is wholly unknown. It is 

 probably a product of an accidental cross between the 

 European grap — which the Frenchman cultivated — 

 and some variety of native grape. The Brighton is 

 the product of a hand cross between the Concord 

 and the Diana-Hamburg (the latter itself a hybrid) 

 by Jacob Moore, then of Brighton, X. Y. The Diana, 

 which was a prominent variety for many years, 



was eji-uwu from a Catawl.a seed in Milton, V 



Moore's Early was grown from a Beed of the Concord. 



Tin- Clinton came op where a handful of grape 



-own at Hamilton College, Clinton, X. Y . and 

 tin- old vine, now aboul Beventy-five years old, i*- still 

 growing on College Hill. The Norton's Virginia was 

 found wild in 1835, near Richmond, Va. Tli- [sabella 

 was broughl into the North earl) in the century. It> 

 origin is wholly unknown, and ha- been the Bubjecl of 

 much speculation. The botanical evidence shows that 

 i' is probabl) a Dative form of the fox-grape. All 



