CHAPTER XVII. 
HARDY NATIVE GRAPES. 
When this work was first published, the hardy native 
grapes then in cultivation were the Catawba, Isabella, 
Diana, Delaware and the Hartford Prolific, with, per- 
haps, afew others, while the Concord was advised for 
further trial. The lists of the present day include 
varieties by the hundred, and thousands of acres are de- 
voted to raising grapes to meet the popular demand. 
’ Nothing in the history of our horticulture has been more 
striking than the development of the hardy native grape. 
Each year has produced new varieties, and the extended 
lists how include excellent kinds suited to a great variety 
of soils and climate. In view of so many kinds, the in- 
ienced novice who would plant grape vines may 
well be puzzled in his selection, and to aid such we give 
aselect list, which may assist him in making a choice: 
Agawam.—A robust vine ; fruit medium early, large — 
in bunch and berry, brownish ; quality very good, but too 
met . persons. excellent famiiy grape. 
a7 sonata color of Catawba ; ~~ 
pair casa in localities this pioneer ee 
still succeeds, ane where it does nothing —_—* ~~ 
it one of 
