GRAPE MANUAL, 7 
It is interesting to know that since the times 
of Linnzus aud of Michaux, not a single real 
species has been added to those belonging to the 
territory of the old United States, east of the 
Mississippi river, though Rafinesque, LeConte 
Bis - 3 h + > 
and characterize a great many more; while Di- 
eas, Vitis fateh resulting, according to 
$ vie ae e hybridization of several of 
tase ipa 
The Taubes of true Grape-vines (with petals 
he Grape-vine er. the Old World, th sere gana 
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Linneus, finds its plac @ imethis_section, bet rota 
Vitis Aniealis. Though many toh its e 
the wild or epeeqeticrondint ones, have fruit not larger than 
that of the above named n ative species. 
This plant, together wit Wheat, belongs to those 
earliest acquisitions of cultivation, the ‘history of which 
reaches beyond the most ancient ig aionsin vd ges Not 
only have the sepulchres o of. ppcient 
Egypt preserved us its fruit HSS sized’ beret and 
eed, but it n discovered i in t e la- 
custrian fn, ere to Saeaien: ‘Ttaly. itis a mooted 
t 
and to 
by eatiretion through uncounted a Pye i- 
den‘al and repeated Now cape! ma 3 es produced 
the numberiless forms now which remind us so 
e 
also cannot trac ich can scarcel ly be derived 
from a single paca original wild species. Director 
egel of St. Pet eg ascribes them to the intermin- 
gling of a few species, well kno rie in their rs State at 
rg day; Prot. Bra aun, of Berlin, suggests 
the offspring of distinct apaiet yet found wild i in many 
parts of Southern Euro d Asia, which thus he con- 
siders not the accidental. "offs ring of the cultivate 
its stems 3, bs wibigig = 
ra i trees, its smooth and s 
3 and its small, black elie 
‘he wild — of ‘the thickets of the ped countries of 
Tuscan rowth, downy 
pees i ‘larger, a more paintabbe trait, which ‘don’t 
make a bad wine,’ as an: Italian botanist expresses him- 
self, reminds us, notwithstanding the foalier. size rid 
e leaves, of our darren peering Wi ata nown to 
the ee pesiong? as Labru 
bork i" smooth- 
Por less deeply, 
cohering at the top and separating at the base, 
so that the corolla falls off without expanding; 
and with edible fruit,) in the present territory 
of the United States, considered good species, 
is limited to nine, which may be enumerated 
thus: 
rape-vines with loose shreddy bark, 
eet y the aid of branc tendrils, or, 
(in No. 1,) without tendrils, and not climbing 
at all. 
a pees ries small, 3—6 orrarely 7 linesi in diame- 
ter, (in No.7 larger,) seeds more or less rounded 
on the top, with the raphe often more or less 
prominent on the top and back, or inconspicu- 
Ht s group have (on 
well grown shoots), intermittent tendrils. 
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1. Viris Rupestris, Scheele. 
inter or Frost-grape. 
RIPARIA , Michaux. 
e grape. 
4, Vitis See Engelmann. 
Arizona-grape. 
5. Vitis “sehen Bentham. 
California-grape. 
6. VITIS ZESTIVALIS, Michaux. 
Summer-grape. 
7. Vitis CANpIcANs, Engelmann. 
Mustang-grape, of Texas. 
6 Berries large, 7—9 or even 10 lines in diam- 
eter; raphe scarcely visible on the more or less 
deeply 1 notched top of the seed; tendrils con- 
tinuou 
8. VITIS LABRUSCA, Linneus. 
Northern Fox Grape. 
Il. Grape-vines with SS ee A Sagoske lectin 
firmly adhering bark enly in the 
yor reach ne meeagiuee! oft ; acovtat: reots praca -_ 
termittent, simple; berries very Aili 10 
lives thick,) very few ina memes easily d 
ing hgkesemuede ra at urity ; cases pat 
tra e inkles or gehen Ow grooves on 
both sid 
9. VITIS VULPINA, Linnzus. 
Southern Fox Grape, or Muscadine. 
It will be seen that the first four species are 
more or less glabrous, the next four more or 
less phase! or cottony; the ninth again sacred 
a six have smaller berries, the others 
larger ones. The practically useful ge Pe al 
rape-vines, are principally Nos. 3, 6, 8 and 9, 
arranged in the order of os: importance to our 
