ON THE GRAPE 



selected to avoid mildew, susceptibility to which 

 is one of the faults of the Tokay, especially in 

 the coast region. Some of the seedlings of the 

 Flame Tokay are white, some black, some red- 

 dish, some of a blue-gray color. Very few of them 

 resemble the Flame Tokay in form, color or qual- 

 ity of fruit, most of them incline to the round form 

 of the ordinary V. vinifera. 



It is not uncommon to find natural hybrids 

 of the California grape and the European grape 

 growing wild alongside the vineyards. The strains 

 of the California species are in some of the strong- 

 est-growing forms of cultivated grapes that are 

 recommended as stocks for the varieties of Euro- 

 pean grape that are subject to injury from 

 phylloxera. 



Work With Strange Species 



Mr. M. K. Seralian, who removed from Pales- 

 tine to America some years ago, secured cuttings 

 of the best Syrian grapes. The vines from these 

 cuttings have habits of growth not unlike those 

 of the Flame Tokay seedlings planted at the same 

 time, and are now about the same size. 



Among them is one identical with our so-called 

 Sweetwater grape. 



Another was certainly Thompson's Seedless — 

 a stray variety renamed since it was imported to 

 California about 1880, and recently identified as 



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