POSSIBILITIES OF OUR NATIVE GRAPES. 



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Gov. Ross . . . Seedling of Triumph, Munson. 



Highland . Seed'g of Triumph ■ Jura Muscat " 

 Irving . . " " -. WhiteFrontigiian,UnderhiIl. 



Jefferson . " " x lona, Ricketts. 



Lady Washington " X Allen's Hybrid, " 



Mansfield . . . . " ■ lona, C. G, Pringle. 



Niagara " Cassady, H.&C.,N. V. 



Planet Concord ■ B. Muscat., Ricketts. 



Senasqua " Blk. Prince, S. Underhill. 



Triumph Concord ■ Chass. Musque., Campbell. 



Wylie'sNo. 8 . . " >. Bovvood Muscat., P. Wylie, S. C. 



Wylie's Gill (Gill Wylie) .Concord -'Vinifera, 



Most of these Concord hybrids are of excellent quality 

 and grand appearance, and many of them very success- 

 ful in many localities ; but where foreign blood has been 

 used, mildew and rot attack them more or less. But by 

 the application of the Bordeaux mixture these diseases 

 can be greatly held in check, and these almost as good 

 as best vinifera can be grown in open ground east of 

 the Rocky mountains south of 36° to 40° latitude. Now 

 by uniting the best of these large-berried, large-clus- 

 tered hybrids with the finest native riparias of the 

 north-west for those regions, and with the rot-proof 

 rupestris, solonis, Lincecumii and aestivalis of the 

 south, great advancement may be made toward fine 

 table-grapes, as well as for wine, in those regions, with 

 vines thoroughly adapted to the various localities. But 

 for the dry western and south-western regions, the La- 

 brusca blood is not adapted for vigor and long life, as 

 that species is not native west of the Allegheny moun- 

 tains and has been developed in and suited to a moist 

 climate, quite the opposite from that of the west. Bet- 

 ter families of grapes for the west would undoubtedly 

 spring from the best selections of the north-western 

 V. riparia and V. bicolor, of K Lincecumii, I', rupestris, 

 V. Solonis, V. Doaniana, V. Champini, 1'. Berlandieri 

 and V. cinerea of the south-west, intermingled with each 

 other, and the Bourquiniana varieties, such as Her- 

 bemont, Le Noir, etc., which are eminently dry-climate 

 grapes. 



In this connection it is interesting to study the Hart- 

 ford Prolific family, for this old variety is also Vitis 

 Labritsca. The Ives is probably a seedling of the Hart- 

 ford. The following list is suggestive : 



Early Victor Seedling of Ives (?) J. Burr, Kansas. 



Empire State Hartford (?) Ricketts, N. Y. 



Framingham Seed'g of Hartford, 



Ives Seed'g of Hartford (?) H. Ives, O. 



Janesville . . Seed'g of Hartford < Clinton, 

 North America . . . Seed'g of Hartford (?) 

 Purple Bloom . . . . " " Dr. Culbert, N. Y. 



Rentz Seed's of Ives, S. RetUz, Ohio. 



Seneca Seed'g of Hartford, Simpson, N. Y. 



Telegraph " " Christine, Pa. 



Whitehall " " (?) G. Goodale, N. Y. 



White Muscat, of Newburg 



Hybrid of Hartford \ lona, D. W. A. Culbert, N. Y. 

 From the above, it appears that Hartford does not 

 give rise in its seedlings to anything much superior to 

 itself, nor to variations in color and season, as does the 

 Concord. Neither has it been a favorite on which to 

 hybridize other blood. The Ives Seedling is the most 

 valuable of the lot. 



Other L.JiBRUSca Hybrids. — Though Catawba, Clin- 



ton, Eumelan and Isabella are generally considered purely 

 of a single specific blood each (Catawba and Isabella as 

 Labrusca, Clinton as riparia, and Eumelan as aestivalis), 

 a careful analysis of them and their pure seedlings quite 

 certainly reveals that Catawba, Eumelan and Isabella 

 contain vinifera blood, and that Clinton is Labrusca 

 mixed with riparia. Each of these is the parent of a 

 good sized family, but I note only the Catawba family : 



Aletha Lab. • Vin. (?) 1 q^j^^^^.^ j„ 



Reported as Catawba Seed'g; doubtful. ) 



.Anna Catawba seed'g, E. Hasbrouck, N. Y. 



Berks " Pa. 



Bird's Egg " Discarded. 



Catawba Lab. • "Vin. (?) Maj. J. Adlum, N. C. 



Clover Street Red . . Diana ■ Hamburg, J. Moore, N. Y. 

 Clover Street Black . . " " " " 



Diana Hamburg . . . •' " " " 



Detroit Catawba seed'g, Mich. 



Don Juan Diana < ? Ricketts. 



Diana Catawba seed'g, D. Crehone, Mass. 



Excelsior lona >, Vinifera, Ricketts. 



Hine .... Catawba Seed'g, J. Brown, O. 



Imperial. . . .lona • Muscat., S. Ricketts, N. V (Seedless), 

 lona Catawba seedling. Dr. C. W. Grant, N. Y- 



Fig. I. Onderdonk. 



(Probably the same as now known in California so favorably as 

 Thompson's Seedless Raisin Grape, which was received from New 

 ^'ork imnamed, with other vines.) 



