GRAPE DISEASE. 541 
When we find it so difficult to properly separate the wild species, 
we can no longer wonder at the difference of opinion as to the 
nature of many of our cultivated varieties; for some of them 
have become so modified that they furnish scarcely any indication 
of their parentage. If those grape-growers who take interest in 
such matters will send specimens of such cultivated varieties as 
they wish to properly classify, to Dr. Engelmann, either directly 
or through me, they will at least get the opinion of one who is 
single amp æstivalis, unless the essential characters above aaia be closely 
attended to, and the numberless gradual transitions from one form into the other be 
watched. 
We cultivate many varieties of this valuable species, the most important of which 
a ‘oon seedling,the Cynthiana and the Herbemont. 
"Yr ESTRIS Scheele—A small bushy n me often without any pein Beni 
shat i tere leaves small (2—3 inches wide) mostly broader than long eart- 
, Scarcely ever aie y s ited. with ROR coarse teeth and usua mm an pte aptly 
elongated point, glabrous, and of a rather light green color; berries middle-sized, on 
i ve 
s roetly 3—4 e raphe. 
very peculiar er is found only west of the Mississippi, from the Mis- 
dw rd In our State i 
called Sand grape, and in Arkansas, it grows on the gravelly banks and over-flowed 
of mountain streams; in Texas also, on pfa» plains, whence the Latin name; it 
roche also known under the name of Sugar grape. Its luscious fruit ripens with us 
Itis ania yet iù cultivation but may in future prove of value. 
ò: Berries large, 7-9 or even 10 lines in diameter ; raphe scarcely visible on the more or 
tess deeply n notched top of the seed.— These plants on well grown shoots bear a tendril 
5. Hi tants A “oie ape fo ee not large, climbing over bushes or 
small trees, t h occas: sag reaching the tops of the highest trees, wit (4-6 
Reali ide) a s ey thick, EP sometimes deeply lobed, very slightly dentate leaves, 
bone when young with a thick rusty, or sometimes whitish, w boa’ festa K of 
€ wild plant remains on the lower sd but almost disappears in sat’ al 
Some cultivated varieties: berries large, in rather small or mitalesied mune 
2 or 3 or sometimes 4 seeds. ‘or-grape 
This plant, usually kn. nown as the Fox-grape or Norther esheets 
Wet thi of the continent from New England to South ee a 
Ra; it extends into the Alleghany mountains and here an Ae cee ee 
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tant varieties of this grape-vine now cultivated in our (such as ‘atawba, 
species d , and do of ol are the offspring of this 
by the Sai are all easily recognized by the characters above given and more readily 
°y the peculiar arrangement of the tendrils as above described. - 
VINES WITR À ADHERING CH DOES NOT SCALE OFF; 
— A FIRML’ HERING BARK, WHI 
es TE NMOST ALWAYS SIMPLE; BERRIES VERY L. LARGE cI LINES IN DIAMETER), 
à SEED <KLES OR SHALLOW GROOVES 
3 ox roras > S 
aie VULPINA Linneus—Bushy or sometimes climbing high, with h small (2 or at 
ome inches wide) eae heart-shaped, firm and glossy dark green leaves, smooth 
Y slightly hairy on the under sas with ¢ isthe large or shallow teeth. 
