22 Vine (Vitacece). [No. 5, 



Fruit, large (half to three quarters inch in diameter), 

 dark purple or amber color, with a tough pulp, and 

 a pleasant musky ("foxy") flavor and odor. It is 

 the very best for making grape-jellies. Clusters, 

 small to medium. September, October. 



Found, in moist groves from New England to South 

 Carolina. 



A vine that climbs often over great distances, reaching 

 like cables among the branches of high trees. From this 

 species are derived some twenty cultivated varieties. Of 

 these, four are now widely introduced and of great market 

 value, namely : Isabella, Catawba, Concord, and Diana. 

 With these might perhaps be included a fifth, the Hart- 

 ford Prolific. The first two, it is claimed, originated in 

 North Carolina. The counter-claim that the Isabella is 

 an imported grape is disproved by the fact that it some- 

 times reverts completely to the Fox-Grape — in leaf and 

 fruit. Also seedlings from it are sometimes fruitless, as 

 happens with other American species, but apparently 

 never with European species. Dr. Laspeyre, of North 

 Carolina, appears to have been its first cultivator, about 

 1805 ; for in 1810 he was selling it in the Wilmington 

 markets. The name, Isabella, was given in compliment 

 to Mrs. Isabella Gibbs, who is said to have taken a cut- 

 ting from it to Brooklyn. (See Dr. Curtis's State Report 

 on North Carolina Woods and Timbers.) 



The Catawba seems to have originated in Buncombe 

 County, N. C, near the French Broad River. 



Fig. 9.— (2) Summer Grape. V. tzstivalis, Mx. 



Flowers, the pistillate forms in long, loose clusters. June. 



Leaves, very variable, four to seven inches in width, 

 toothed, and usually more or less three- to five-lobed, 



