﻿Inventory 53, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



PLATE I 



An Indian Boy Holding a Cluster of Wild Tropical Grapes (Vitis 

 tiliaefolia humb. and bonpl., s. p. i. no. 45361). 



The problem of. producing a table grape which will grow and fruit well in the Tropics is probably- 

 one of plant breeding. The existence of this strictly tropical species of Vitis, which bears clusters 

 of fruit of fair size and quality, should encourage the plant breeders to hybridize it with the larger 

 fruited cultivated grape. The photograph is of a cluster from a vine found near Vera Cruz, 

 Mexico, but the inventory description is of a form which, according to Wilson Popenoe, is very 

 juicy, very sour, and contains only two seeds. It bears heavily and the fruits are of fairly good 

 size and only need to be sweetened to be fit for table use. (Photographed by Wilson Popenoe, 

 Puerto Mexico, Vera Cruz, June 15, 1918; P17494FS.) 



