10 < BUSHBERG CATALOGUE. 
The metpeipal varieties of this species, thus classi- 
[6] Southern Group. 
Biack Hawk. ADIRONDAC, 
CONCORD. CASSADY. 
Cc AGE. CATAWBA 
DRACUT AMBER. DIANA. 
HARTFORD PROLIFIC: Iona. 
IvEs. ISABELLA. 
LaDy. IsRAELLA 
MARTHA. Lyptia. 
NORTHERN MUSCADINE. MAXaAT 
PERKINS. MOTTLED. 
REBECCA. 
TELEGRAPH. KALON 
VENANGO. UNION VILLAGE. 
This subdivision of poring: into a northern and 
southern form is a new idea of our own, and may bea 
unyiome tis here pr sat for the first time, not as 
tablished fact, already accepted or endorsed by any 
teste authority, but as a hypothesis worthy of 
i i rther research. In some few va- 
we find it as 
which group they should 
be assigned; but this oe exists also, in some, 
with regard to the spec 
The varieties enumerated rari which we consider 
rable grafting stock 
the Southern group of Labrusea, though exhibiting a a 
larger 
inifera 
suffer from the insect. powers and Riley a - 
served that the roots of Labrusca have a sweetish taste, 
without having the astringen - eunh character belong- 
ing to the roots of other species, especially of Rotundi- 
folia.) 
Vitis Corpironia, Michaux. Tall (or more 
rarely low), climbing high by the aid of intermit- 
ne slightly tri-lobed on the edges, with broa 
shallow teeth, usually smooth and shining, 
more on the upper than on the lower side; the 
young ones sometimes, and very rarely the old 
ones, with short hair on the ribs below; pani- 
cles compound, large and loose; berries among 
‘Maturing late in the fall, usually with a single 
short and thick seed, marked by a more or less 
prominent rae 
This lake more especially in = soil, and 
is acommon plant in river and creek bottoms. 
It aft weet ibaa by the name of Winter Grape, 
Frost Grape, or Chicken Grape, and it is, 
together with the next, the earliest flowering 
species; the flowers, principally the sterile, 
(male,) are especially fragrant. It is found 
from New England to Texas, and westward to 
the western limits of the wooded part of the 
Mississippi valley. In this valley, at least, the 
fruit has a strong and even fetidly aromatic 
taste, which unfits it for making into preserves 
or for pressing wine. No cultivated varieties of 
this species are known. 
Vitis Riparia, Michaux. Similar to the last, 
but usually a smaller plant, with larger 
y hairy) leaves, the lobes long 
a inted, the teeth also more pointed than 
in Cordifolia; aan rather Sa and com- 
pact; berries ally larger than in the last, 
mostly with a seen m, in smaller and often more 
compact bunches, without pulp, commonly 1 or 
2-seeded; seeds obtuse, or sometimes very 
slightly depressed, with the raphe often almost 
obliterate 
This spetion prefers thickets or rocky = on 
river banks, and extends as far south as the 
last, and much farther north and west, betiig 
the only grape vine in Lower Canada, where it 
northern form, in Canada, 
northern New York to Michigan and Nebraska, 
has fewer and larger berries in a bunch, and is 
easily distinguished from V. Cordifolia. The 
south-western form, however, a taller plant, 
with smaller black berries, approaches more 
closely to this last species, and often seems to 
V. Cordifolia, Michx. The fruit ripens 
earlier than that of Cordifolia, and is much 
pleasanter. (In St. Louis a variety found on 
e rocky river-banks is brought to market in 
July.) 
VITICULTURAL REMARKS. 
Both Cordifolia are often considered 
types of one species, (Gray, Durand, Planchon,) and 
grape growers usually designate the cultivated varie- 
ties of this species as ‘‘ Cordifolia;’’ Dr. Engelmann 
himself stated ‘‘ that both species are so closely allied 
that it isa matter of individual judgment whether to 
keep them separate or to unite them;’’ we prefer 
therefore to ath ve shat designation. The CLINToN, 
its most promi as certainly in the foliage, 
more of the ea Conia than of the Riparia, but pa 
rege Pages turing late in the fall, assimilate: 
and Riparia ar 
eal 
f the 
Northern pnectn ‘yet they are equally healthy at maid: even 
more productive at the South. A distinct form of 
