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BUSHBBRG CATALOGUE. 



The principal varieties 

 fied, are: 

 [a] Northern Group. 



BLACK HAWK. 



CONCORD. 



COTTAGE. 



DRACUT AMBER. 



HARTFORD PROLIFIC. 



IVES. 



LADY. 



MARTHA. 



NORTHERN MUSCADINE. 



PERKINS. 



RENTZ. 



TELEGRAPH. 



VBNANGO. 



of this species, thus classi- 



[6] Southern Group. 

 ADIRONDAC. 

 CASSADY. 

 CATAWBA. 

 DIANA. 

 IONA. 

 ISABELLA. 

 ISRAELLA. 

 LYDIA. 

 MAXATAWNY. 

 MOTTLED. 

 KEBECCA. 

 TO-KALON. 

 UNION VILLAGE. 



This subdivision of Labrusca into a northern and 

 southern form is a new idea of our own, and may be a 

 mistake. It is here presented for the first time, not as 

 an established fact, already accepted or endorsed by any 

 botanical authority, but as a hypothesis worthy of 

 consideration and further research. In some few va- 

 rieties (Creveling, North Carolina, &c.) we find it as 

 yet difficult to determine to which group they should 

 be assigned; but this difficulty exists also, in some, 

 with regard to the species. 



The varieties enumerated under A, which we consider 

 the Northern group of Labrusca, may be relied upon 

 as sufficiently resistive to Phylloxera; they seem to us 

 the most preferable grafting stock; those under B, 

 the Southern group of Labrusca, though exhibiting a 

 larger degree of resistance in this country than Vinifera, 

 suffer from the insect. (Planchon and Riley have ob- 

 served that the roots of Labrusca have a sweetish taste, 

 without having the astringent or acid character belong- 

 ing to the roots of other species, especially of Rotundi- 

 folia.) 



VITIS CORDIFOLIA, Michaux. Tall (or more 

 rarely low), climbing high by the aid of intermit- 

 ting branched tendrils, trunks often 6 9 inches 

 in diameter, with loose shreddy bark. Leaves 

 middle-sized or small (2 3 or 4 inches in diam- 

 eter), round-heart-shaped, mostly entire or 

 very slightly tri-lobed on the edges, with broad 

 shallow teeth, usually smooth and shining, 

 more on the upper than on the lower side ; the 

 young ones sometimes, and very rarely the old 

 ones, with short hair on the ribs below; pani- 

 cles compound, large and loose; berries among 

 the smallest, in large, mostly loose bunches, 

 black, without a bloom and without tough pulp; 

 maturing late in the fall, usually with a single 

 short and thick seed, marked by a more or less 

 prominent raphe. 



This grows more especially in fertile soil, and 

 is a common plant in river and creek bottoms. 

 It is well known by the name of Winter Grape, 

 Frost Grape, or Chicken Grape, and it is, 

 together with the next, the earliest flowering 

 species; the flowers, principally the sterile, 



(male,) are especially fragrant. It is found 

 from New England to Texas, and westward to 

 the western limits of the wooded part of the 

 Mississippi valley. In this valley, at least, the 

 fruit has a strong and even fetidly aromatic 

 taste, which unfits it for making into preserves 

 or for pressing wine. No cultivated varieties of 

 this species are known. 



VITIS RIP ARIA, Michaux. Similar to the last, 

 but usually a smaller plant, with larger (3-5 

 inches in friameter) and more or less incisely 

 3 lobed, glabrous, shining (or rarely when 

 young, slightly hairy) leaves, the lobes long 

 and pointed, the teeth also more pointed than 

 in Cordifolia; panicles rather small and com- 

 pact; berries usually larger than in the last, 

 mostly with a blooin,iu smaller and often more 

 compact bunches, without pulp, commonly 1 or 

 2-seeded; seeds obtuse, or sometimes very 

 slightly depressed, with the raphe often almost 

 obliterated. 



This species prefers thickets or rocky soil on 

 river banks, and extends as far south as the 

 last, and much farther north and west, being 

 the only grape vine in Lower Canada, where, it 

 is found even 60 miles north of Quebec, and the 

 only one on the eastern slope of the Rocky 

 Mountains. The northern form, in Canada, 

 northern New York to Michigan and Nebraska, 

 has fewer and larger berries in a bunch, and is 

 easily distinguished from V. Cordifolia. The 

 south-western form, however, a taller plant, 

 with smaller -black berries, approaches more 

 closely to this last species, and often seems to 

 run so close to it that in some editions of his 

 manual, Prof. Gray has united both under the 

 name of V* Cordifolia, Michx. The fruit ripens 

 earlier than that of Cordifolia, and is much 

 pleasanter. (In St. Louis a variety found on 

 the rocky river-banks is brought to market in 

 July.) 



VITICULTURAL REMARKS. 



Both Cordifolia and Riparia are often considered 

 types of one species, (Gray, Durand, Planchon,) and 

 grape growers usually designate the cultivated varie- 

 ties of this species as " Cordifolia;" Dr. Engelmann 

 himself stated " that both species are so closely allied 

 that it is a matter of individual judgment whether to 

 keep them separate or to unite them;" we prefer 

 therefore to adhere to that designation. The CLINTON, 

 its most prominent variety, has certainly in the foliage, 

 more of the true Cordifolia than of the Riparia, but the 

 fruit, though maturing late in the fall, assimilates it 

 more to the latter. 



This section represents the most healthy grapes of the 

 Northern States, yet they are equally healthy and even 

 more productive at the South. A distinct form of this 



