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heat than the currant, and cannot be expected to thrive 

 except among the mountains. It is like the currant, pro- 

 pagated from cuttings, likes the same soil and treatment 

 generally, even in the Northern States, and in our moun- 

 tain region the fruit is liable to mildew, the foreign varie- 

 ties being much more subject to it than the native 

 varieties. 



Houghton's Seedling, Downing's Seedling, Pale Red, 

 and Red Jacket are the best native varieties we have 

 seen. Champion is recommended by the Division of 

 Pomology as especially desirable in Eastern Texas. 

 Chautauqua, of the Grassularia species, has also been 

 grown successfully in Eastern Texas. Woods' earth, or 

 leaf mould, aud ashes, are the best manures for both the 

 currant and gooseberry that we have tried. 



Marketing. — Pick green, but when fully grown, before 

 the coloring of the ripe condition begins to show. Pack in 

 baskets. 



THE GRAPE.— ( Vitis.) 



The vine was one of the first plants brought into culti- 

 vation. The foreign grapes are all varieties of Vitis vini- 

 fcra, and came originally from Asia. Of native grapes, 

 we have Vitis Labrusca, of which Isabella, Catawba, Con- 

 cord, Diana, Hartford Prolific, and many others, are 

 varieties; Vitis Bour'quiniana and V. aestivalis, which 

 include the wild Summer and the Frost Grape. Of the 

 cultivated varieties, the Herbemont, Lenoir, and others 

 of the same class; Vitis rot audi folia, which includes the 

 wild Muscadine, or Bullace, of the South, and the Scup- 

 pernong. 



Our American grapes are seedlings from the wild varie- 

 ties, removed some one, two, and three generations from 

 the original type. Foreign grapes do not succeed in our 

 climate in open air or out-door cultivation. All the foreign 



