6 Climate, Soil, etc. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Grape Localities. 
quantity, and often entirely fails, grape culture 
may exist on a small scale for home use and 
market, but on a large scale it will not reward 
the vintner’s labor, and would finally be aban- 
doned. As California in the West, so does 
Virginia in the East, and parts of Texas and 
Arkansas in the South, seem to possess the 
best localities for grape culture on a very large 
e. 
— are only a few countries where the 
id suc- 
- Species found in the lower latitudes 
will not flourish if removed further north; the 
_ natives of higher altitudes will not endure the 
‘southern heat; the Scuppernong cannot ripen 
e very 
iaferion t in the most favored ad erage of New 
Thus the ‘elimoaie. the mean temperature as 
well as = extremes, the length of the growing 
e relative amount of rain, the ameli- 
8 varieties of 
grapes; and a judicious choice of locations 
- adapted to the 
: fore of the first im 
uited. to all localities ; nei- 
— is there any one locality = is suited 
toall L grapes. Semele W. Campbell. 
1500 
: cultivated in Europe, vei bine —— of kinds 
especially ted t loeali 
oe ‘to form the main bulk of the vineyards of? the 
success. No variety, sae probably 
none that will ever be produced, is well. adapt- 
1 cultivation in more than a 
. remember that the grapes we cultivate in the 
United States have originated from one or the 
other of several distinct species, or from crosses 
between some of their varieties, and that each 
of those native species is found growing wild 
in certain limited portions of our country, and 
not at allin others. Thus the wild Labrusca 
is a stranger to the lower Mississippi Valley 
and westward. By observing what species 
grows in a locality, we may safely assume that 
cultivated varieties of the same species will 
thrive best in that locality or its vicinity under 
otherwise Lg tes conditions. Where the na- 
tive speci oes not exist, its cultivated varie- 
ties may ie a time promise excellent success; 
but in many localities this promise will prob- 
| ably, sooner or later, end in disappointment. 
north of Virginia ; the Fox grape of the North | 
This has 
the most reliable, healthy and hardy Ameri- 
can grape. 
On the other hand this proposition seems to 
conflict with the fact that American vines of 
different ae: have been successfully trans- 
planted e to Europe. But it would be a 
great cise to hatieve that they would suc- 
in all parts of that continent. It was 
found, on the contrary, that there also some of 
_. our varieties which succeed well in one portion 
_ of France, for instance, entirely failed in oth- 
grape, and of varieties adapted 
to our logation, its éiteunte and soil, is there- — 
mpor rtance. 
| succeed equally well i inall 1 locations. 
ferrain 
ers; es that we 
correspond in soil, climat 
localities in our own siete: and where this 
is the case, well and good; but where these are 
different the results are unsatisfacto. tory. In 
evidence we quote from the report of the com- 
mission, com of some of the best French 
authorities, to the International Phylloxera 
oe = Bordeaux (Oct., 1882). After r giv- 
in 
principal vin eyards of France where American 
vine have = planted, they say, ‘ — they 
means 
“The na- 
ture of the e climate must be 
taken into serious puree eationa it 
But was 
- not one of the great difficulties with — French 
vines 
to know which variety suited so or 
such soil or aspect? How many failures 
the consequence of bad selection ! 
7 = humidity and altitude.” 
, this has b i i 
but insufficiently understood. : 
Indigenous wild grapes were hii at the 
discovery of of this new world; the legend tells 
us that when the ——- first discovered 
