CLASSIFICATION. 



apples of the Hesperides were probably quinces. The seeds are 

 used in medicine and the plants as a stock for dwarfing pears. 

 There are so few varieties of quinces that they are easily 

 grouped for the present under the species. 



ORDER VITACE^. 



Woody plants, climbing by tendrils, with watery and often 

 acid juice, alternate leaves, deciduous stipules, and small green- 

 ish flowers in a cyme; with a minutely 4-5-toothed or almost 

 obsolete calyx; petals valvate in the bud and very deciduous; 

 the stamens as many as the petals and opposite them ; a 2-celled 

 ovary with a pair of ovules rising from the base of each cell, 

 becoming a berry containing 1-4 bony seeds. Tendrils and 

 flower-clusters opposite the leaves. 



THE GEAPES. 



The only attempt to classify grapes will be to give a brief 

 botanical arrangement of the species commonly cultivated. For 

 further study the student will be referred to Bailey's "The 

 Evolution of Native Fruits." 



The fruit of the grape is a pulpy berry which normally is 

 two-celled with from two to four seeds to which the pulp adheres 

 tenaciously in our native species. 



GENUS VITIS. 



(Classical Latin name.) 



Flowers in late spring. Petals and stamens 5, the former 

 lightly cohering at the top and thrown off without expanding; 

 the base of the very short and truncate calyx filled with the 



