24 =Riparia. 
BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
Riparia. 
In the winter of 1875 ‘aes received from M. mar de 
Saint Cl ,in Frane ndred 
thousand a long cuttings, ‘mostly of the oot ea which 
grafting stock 
view of the ey ish more than 1 
Taylor cuttings (as this is, on account of its ‘de- 
ficient productiveness, but tittle cultivated), our G. E. 
Meissner proposed to M. ( Blou- 
ahiie 
their devastated viney ards... Fabre consented, and the 
In 
October, 1877, Fabre first published the result in the 
“Journal d’ Agriculture,” and since that time this spe- 
was: Me aa tae antic to avoid the admixture of Cor- 
ivalis, and other wild stapes, which 
@ French vintners to whom 
_ larger and smaller foliage, more or less hairy, more or 
less c_ in : color of wood, &e., some eee, stouter 
ee a 
le characteristics, given by Dr. 
braced quite a group of somewhat deviating forms, of 
finer and shi as strong as those ap ~*~ Riparia. The- 
bark of will b d to peal off in 
shreds, whilst the baxk of the agen and others- 
will pe off in fiakes 
e just in receipt (July, 1883) of the first num- 
ber of the “‘Ampelographie Americaine. ” an Album of’ 
+h 
National Schoollof Agriculture 
pete: Riparia three forms will be figured and minutely 
scribed. 
or r. Despetis, who made the Riparia aspecial st 
says that = SS ssi = ee or eb wanietiog a 
Riparia us (downy-leaved), others- 
glabrous rasp ty ; some have light red wood,. 
others dark, an eé even white (gray) wood. But 
they all resist everywhere and succeed generally well;. 
on limestone hills, however, they do not as well as the 
a —— zs). 
grape-grower will ask: Of what practical. - 
‘heptane is it to know the botanic characteristics of ~ 
any rset The answer is, that it enables us to de- 
termine to which species a cultivated variety belongs, 
and t o know : Shereby, beyond doubt, which qualities, . 
have; 
what kind of aeoil 1 +q 3 whe gad 
t will w from cuttings, be more or less. 
ee to ne les s, be more or less hardy, etc. 
The Vitis Riparia healthy and. 
wer, 
native of Switzerland, now at Sauk City, Wis., writes 
us: “The w and hills of Wisco are full of wild 
vines, and they grow also along the streams and o 
eek-gra i late, tastes very 
d sour; but the which the 
Pp 
— and no cold can kill it. ae the Sand-grape 
