16 Dr. Engelmann. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Classification. 
and to introduce into cultivation. The species 
will readily grow from cuttings. 
6. Vitis AR1IzonIcA, Engelmann, is closely 
related to the last, and has similar seeds, 
~ ane ae TRDHS, though rarely prominent, 
: bra 
let angular; leaves cordate, with a aed 
open, rounded ey not lobed, or with two 
sh fl 
berries small or middle sized, reported to be of 
luscious taste 
45. VPRS Fsvrv Axis, Michaux. Climbing 
over bushes and small trees by the aid of 
intermittent tendrils;° branchlets 
rounded, bark of the mature ones mostly | 
red, and sealing off in large flakes; leaves 
large (4-5 or 6 inches wide), of firm texture, 
ter, coated with a bloom, , when well grown in 
compact, often cylindri bunches; seeds 
rather large, mostly two or three in each 
berry, rounded on to 
than is common in our 
species. 
‘This is the well known summer r grape, com- 
non throughout the Middle and Southern 
0 
s 
our Grape-vines, and hence has seduced 
: 1to the establishment of numerous nominal 
s 
h 
, have to be kept 
stencil the latter I mention Vv. mon- 
—— bushy than 
1g has larger berries, leaves often deeply 
five lobed, and coated with a thick 
| other hand 
and there known under the name of Post-oak 
grape or Sand grape, but extending also to 
and Missouri, has thus been quoted 
for the Western and Southwestern States, to 
which the true Labrusca is an entire stranger. 
This species is one of the most important 
ones for us, and in the West at least, has al- 
ey teikon the place once accorded to the La- 
br forms in our cultures, not only for their 
greater, aye absolute, resistance to the Phyl- ? 
loxera, but also for their intrinsic value as 
wine tend even table) grapes, notwithstanding 
the superior size of the Labru Un- 
fortunately the typical forms cannot be propa- 
ed by cuttings, and there are a number o: 
varieties which, originating from a Southern 
home, are not quite hardy here, but, on the 
have the advantage of being 
propagated by slips, in some favor- 
able localities. Their leaves are thinner than 
those of our type, and woolly only in the first 
among others the Cunningham, with less di- 
vided, and the Herbemont and the Lenoir with 
deeply lobed leaves, the two former with 
lighter colored, the latter with deep black 
unately no wild plant from 
which ‘these varieties might have sprung is 
we correctly judge of their botanical status. 
About their viticultural relations, the body of 
this work has to be consulted. I will o only 
state here that a slight suspicion exists of 
_ their being hybrids between FV. eestivalis and 
some form of vinifera, though the seeds are 
entirely those of the former, and also the re- 
sistance to Phylloxera. The variety Lenoir 
often named eg and in Texas Black Span 
ish, has been 
Southern Fran 
by millions into 
ANS, yey is there found to furnish 
8. pli Colne, En nge y allied 
to Hstivalis, with which I had pai united 
it as a variety, of pretty much the same size, 
rarely taller. It is distinguished by its white- 
ish or grayish pubescence. which, eg especially 
on the branchlets, is auite persistent, even 
sae winter; by the angular branchlets, the 
hair being onpecially a laccl on the angles ; “ 
> corda often entire, or slightly three-_ 
ay-downy ssi, which 
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