GRAPE MANUAL. 9 
qui ee des vins colorés, corsés, 4 eo ae souvent 
delicat, et en tout cas non-foxé.”—J. EZ. Planchon, Les 
Vignes ines 
Mr. Herman J: neger, aa Neosho, south-west Missouri, 
us: ‘*In sou t Missouri, southern Illinois, 
crops of fine grapes, and of the m 
with proper culture and favorable seasons, a few more, 
—then oi ay to such an extent, ‘that they: are cutirely 
worthles: 
oe cd she these States. 
m 
J truly 
It was believed that no 
The wi 
and etipy as no Labrusca ever Feit be with us.’’ 
Th ties s group generally prefer a dry, 
poor col, “futormiited with lime and 
w olid, har 
small pith, and firm outer bark; so that it is almost im- 
propagate this species from cuttings. 
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to Clinton—but we think they are too good and valua- 
ble to serve merely as a grafting stock. 
ris LaBR Rusca, Linneus. Plant usu- 
ally not large, stems with tee shreddy bark, 
climbing over bushes or small trees, though oc- 
casionally reaching the tops of the highest trees. 
endrils continuous, branched. ves (4—6 
inches wide,) large and thick, entire, 
times deeply lobed, very slightly dentate, “ebalad 
when young with a thick, rusty or sometimes 
whitish wool or down, which in si wild plants 
remains on the lower side, but almost disappears 
ure leaf of some cultivated varieties ; 
_two or three or sometimes four seeds. (Figs. 11 
and 12.) 
This plant, usually known as the Fox grape, 
or Northern Fox grape, is a native of the east- 
ern slope of the continent from New England 
to South Carolina, where it prefers wet thickets; 
it extends into the Alleghany mountains, and 
here and there even down their western decliv- 
ity, but is a stranger to the Mississippi Valley. 
By far the largest number of varieties of grape- 
vines now cultivated in our country, are the off- 
spring of this species; a few produced by nur- 
serymen, but most of them picked up in the 
woods; they are easily recognized by the char- 
acters above given, and most readily by the pe- 
culiar arrangements of the tendrils as above de- 
scribed. ree and downy-leaved varieties of 
V. Zstivalis are, in the West and South-west, 
not rarely mistaken for Labrusca, but the two 
may always be distinguished by the characters 
indicated. 
VITICULTURAL REMARKS. 
“For table use, this species, inits improve ed varieties. 
in 
maturity of the best varieties of this class, the inferior 
kinds will or tg place. 
As a wine gra e V. Labrusca has been — 
ated; the eh op sot pulp of even the best e- 
ties Beauires a Oe: and favorable season of pani to 
uce 
+ ft 
re p prop Tatlo OF 
ery a: 
_ Pullye endorsing the abov © quoted views of William 
Saund 
mn we do not wish to be understood as ad- 
using La- 
popular wines. But for wines of finest we re- 
commend the Mistivalis, where its oe succeed, as 
far superior to the Labrusea. Mor r, we recognize 
in rm (same 
as in the Riparia and stivalis), with distinct charac- 
The Northern Labrusca—a plant of great vigor, hardi- 
ness and productiveness; abundant, heavy, bran 
and fibrous roots, thick pith and firm lib 
fruit of superior size, but also 
ness and foxiness in taste or flavor 
bru: far more tender plan 
alties from <erapcto kdeobioptient e cha 
with few and feeble roots, of only moderatel 
t will not do well at 
subject to fungoid 
well ripen at the North. 
“ster “ exon. 200 to rot, and is not continue to succeed 
th-west, where both of the Labr. 
seem not to feel at home.* 
welli 
*G. Onderdonk writes us: “After all, our grapes in 
Texas must come from the stivalis famil No La- 
brusca has given us good, permanent ee ected: here.” 
This same view is obtaining groun in Arkansas and | 
rfull trial poll ¥ 
south-west Missouri, afte 
experience. 
