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on the Clinton, being about double the size and of better 

 flavor, but scarcely any earlier. There are several others 

 which I have not had an opportunity of seeing, among 

 which Hardy Chasselas, Clover Street Red, and Moore's 

 Hybrid, are said to be promising. 



There has been considerable doubt existing among 

 grape-growers as to whether true hybrids had been 

 j)roduced. For my own part, I have never doubted 

 but what it was possible, but I was not fully convinced 

 at the time "of publishing the first edition of this 

 work that it had been done. Since that time, however, 

 I have made some experiments, (taking for a basis the 

 theory given on page 15, third paragraph,) the results of 

 which have been perfectly convincing, to myself at least, 

 that hybrid grapes are a fact. From Rogers's Hybrid 

 No. 4, 1 have produced both wild fox grapes, and appar- 

 ently pure foreign vai'ieties. If I had needed any further 

 proof, Mr. Moore's Hybrids were at hand, which show the 

 mixture of the two species even more plainly than those 

 of Mr. Rogers. 



MOUNT LEBANON.- 

 A large fox grape, of little or no value, 



NEBRASKA. 

 A beautiful ornamental vine, but the fruit of no value. 



NORTH AMERICA. 



A large, black, fox grape. Quite early." Sweet, but 

 with so much of the foxy character that it is not wortli 

 growing. 



NONANTUM. 



A new variety reared by Francis Dana, of Massachusetts. 

 Described as being a medium sized black grape, similar in 



