ENGELMANN—GRAPE-VINES. . 661 
His No. 1, V. Labdrusca, is not the plant which Linneus has 
designated by this name and which to eastern botanists 18 
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as I am informed, all along the Atlantic ee and up into the 
Alleghany Mountains, but does not exten 
sippi valley. It is considered to be the mother plant of the 
cultivated Catawba, Isabella, and other American nove 
Vitis Labrusca of Prof. Swallow must be referred to /. 
cordifolia, when he describes it as a plant growing to very 
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It is an interesting fact that all the true grapes of sera sg ke 
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belonging to the section Cissus), in the wild state, are a. of "The 
lygamous, while the cultivated varieties bear re hich still grows 
same is the case with the grape-vine of the old world, w. 
wild and to an immense size in the marshy forests of the rit 
uscany, being called there to this day by the old Latin him, wey on 
e A irgil, Labrusea, a name which Linneus has improperly 
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t It is well known and sufficiently proven by @ eras pre from all 
experiments, instituted with almost every bigot dite yine urope, 
parts of the old world, that the Vitis vinifera, il under our burning 
will not thrive in our climate. Soon losing Phe cst i 
bear, and can not bring its wood to perfection ; nd, if 
ters almost always kill the vines down to tae Ma produce a grape-vine 
tected. Would it not be possible by hybridization to P s and the luscious 
with the tough and enduring leaves of our aga Na y 
and juicy fruit of the better varieties of Vitis vinifé 
