ae 
Scuppernong. 
DESCRIPTION OF VARIETIES. Scuppernong Hybr. 
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call the Herbemont, the Catawba, and others. Each to 
his taste.”’ 
The Scuppernong grape was discovered by the col- 
ony of Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1554, on the Island of 
Roanoke, N.C., and the original vine is said still to 
lance 
Estivalis, Cordifolia; they will all intermingle, pro- 
ducing hybrids, but none of them can ever(?) be be crossed. 
¥. Rotundifolia, which 
with the blooms twdé months 
later than eit i The odor 
fit ge Pk py S and en- 
tirely n the ee of the Fox-grape 
family.” The growth of the vine, or rather the space 
over which es end in a series of y ; 
is almost fabulous. The aad of the Scuppernong is 
smooth, of a grayish-ashy color with many 
small, dot-like specks of lighter | hee: the wood sens 
ose-textured, firm; roots white or creamy. 
. dropping in near become of a a 
cluster censisting usually of only about zx 
the ground. Color e1 
fully ripe. The volnds sweet, Juicy, vinous, with a 
a4 flavor—a e to some 
g American grape-gro 
ill be > the following, from a letter et 8. 4 
Masthews of Monticello, Ark rk., written for this Cata- 
loge: 
The S did. white wine; 
its fruit, though ordinarily deficient nt in sugar, is 
vines, whereby a gecesete proportion of but par- 
tially bane fruit is obtained. And yet, according to 
88° on the 
(Oechale) must scale, which would give 9 per cent. of 
AL €. Cook, : was quoted in your Catalogue 
a 1875) ws bas ta sige . ‘the is deficient 
n both sugar and aci acid, as itratesa at about 10 per cent. 
of the first and 4 mills of f the latter,’ wishes to —— 
tsi ang sso 8 Mh as 18 per cent. wt | 
‘the ‘the grape 
toms; when it shall be trained on trellises, where the 
shall bathe the fruit and foliage, instead of upon tall 
umbrageous through which the sun’s rays 
y when only the perfectly ripe 
stead 
nom reened together, there wit be little, if any, lack 
of 
“But, ev en admitting this deficiency, itis the only 
demerit of this variety, and can be remedied either by 
adding pure sagar to the must, OF by evaporating the 
of the resulting syrup to the other as is needed to 
as evidently mistaken in suppos- 
ing that Rotandifolia could ok be hybridized with 
+ ¢ Dr Wy- 
lie, South Carolina, have proved. And it is an- 
moo ee 8 repeated mistake, that the Seup- 
Tt 
is ae ‘that the Rotundifolia, im ed to Southern 
on pic of its phyllox- 
at- 
may not be quite as rage nor of as long durability 
as in other —— more affinity ; eee et 
fal, 
At Maeda Am. Pom. Society held in Balti- 
his remarkable 
valuable results may derive.” 
ne oo I ee a pecan 
gps ag 
oe alco ong Hybrid No. 4. Grows in 
slender, 
soil. Wood Nonegemeres 
pipe-clay d gemesady le | 
medium, compact in wonderful profusion ; 
berry round, greenish-white, pulp half- dissolving ; 
much juice, sprightly swith a} musky + 
aroma, unlike the Seup ; quality good. Matu- — 
rity middle of August.” oe 
Solonis. A peculiar form of Riparia, somewhat 
. frorn the | form by the longer, 
ordinary 
‘sharply incised teeth of its foliage. Its home is proba- 
not and never was knownor 
esteemed in 
