542 GRAPE DISEASE. 
good authority, and such action may be mutually profitable. : 
Specimens should be sent at flowering time, and should include 
the whole shoot with full sized and young leaves, blossom, and ; 
tendril ; and after the fruit is ripe a bunch of the berries and seeds a 
from the same stock should follow. 
The proper classification of our different varieties is of more 
importance in this connection than would at first appear. Since 
the publication of some of the facts set forth in this article, a few 
enterprising French grape-growers, in the districts desolated by 
the louse, have conceived the idea of importing from this country 
such varieties as are most exempt from the attacks of the Phyl- 
ogera, and M. LeFranc, the Minister of Agriculture, has likewise 
expressed his intention of so doing. Already a number of vaie 
ties, and especially the Cunningham, Herbemont, Norton’s Virginia, 
Concord, Hartford Prolific, Clinton and Martha have been shipped 
to M. J. Leenhardt, of Montpellier, France, and others to Swit- 
zerland, by Messrs. Isidor Bush and Co. If America has given 
this plague to England, why should she not in return furnish her 
with vines which are capable of resisting it? At least nothing : 
ut good can come of the trial, for though our grapes: are gene 
rally sneered at on the other side of the water, we have i 
such rapid improvements in viticulture during the last ten years 
that they scarcely know anything of our better kinds; and many 
of those which do well in Missouri will doubtless succeed in 
France. Such of our vines as -have already been cultivated ee 
are often differently classified by their writers to what per are 
American authors, and confusion consequently ensues. + ee 
of my correspondents, M. Laliman, of Bordeaux, who has al 
Clinton 
vated a number of them for several years, classes the VTT 
Bullace 
This southern species known under the name of Southern Fox eae Carolins 
Bullit-grape is found along water-courses, not gare north. than 
ggle in 
rkansa Missouri A 
cultivated varieties, especially the white aint fag highly ee the 
but do not perfect fruit. in the one of St. Lou of 
I recognize only three other species of the true grape-vines in the ue 
United mone jew om t PIR sie these is he Mustang ag of ded, almost tooth- 
dicans Enge V. Mustangensis Buckley), with rather la 
ibas, s rarely deeply- lobed leaves: White woolly on the under side, = ens beries 
sate only sie grape of California, “ig s rounded downy ear sad “ee Bo ‘ 
not made u s far as is kno Vitis Arizonica Engelm., sim f the 
glabrous, as midsize oriak ehes to be of a luscious | aie 
shows a prominen a on the seed, so that this character is pee 
es here seo Per 
