THE GRAPE. 
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White. 
Yellow. 
Freedom. 
Leader. 
Snowdrop. 
Drill. 
Queen of Trumps. 
Catherine. 
Lady Leicester. 
Gunner. 
Eagle. 
Peru. 
Tally Ho. 
Goldfinder. 
Houghton’s Seedling 
Originated with Abel Houghton, Lynn, Mass. A vigorous 
grower, branches rather slender, very productive, generally free 
from mildew ; a desirable sort. Fruit medium or below 
roundish, inclining to oval Skin smooth, pale red. Flesh ten- 
der, sweet, and very good. 
Selection of sorts for a garden : 
Red. Red Warrington, Companion, Crown Bob, London, 
Houghton’s Seedling. 
Yellow. Leader, Yellow Ball, Catherine, Gunner. 
White. Woodward’s Whitesmith, Freedom, Taylor’s Bright 
Venus, Tally Ho, Sheba Queen. 
Green. Pitmaston Green Gage, Thumper, Jolly Angler, Mas- 
sey’s Heart of Oak, Parkinson’s Laurel. 
CHAPTER XVII. 
THE GRAPE. 
Vitis vinifera , L. Vitacece, of botanists. 
Vigne, of the French; Weintrauben, German; Vigna , Italian; Vid, u 
Vina, Spanish. 
The history of the grape is almost as old as that of man. 
Growing in its highest perfection in Syria and Persia, its luscious 
fruit and the unrivalled beverage which its fermented juice affords, 
recommended it to the especial care of the patriarchal tillers of the 
soil, and vineyards were extensively planted, long before orchards 
or collections of other fruit trees were at all common. 
The grapes of the old world are all varieties of the wine grape, 
( Vitis vinifera ,) which, though so long and so universally culti- 
vated and naturalized in all the middle and southern portions 
of Europe, is not a native of that continent, but came originally 
from Persia. From the latter country, as civilization advanced 
westward, this plant accompanied it — first to Egypt, then to 
