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DESCRIPTIONS 
5. FOX GRAPE. 
Scuppernong. 
This grape is a southern species, and known as the Vitis Vulpina. The bunches bear 
about a dozen thick-skinned berries, and larger than the Isabella, and round. Flesh 
acid near the seeds, and rather disagreeably musky ; but the perfume is fine and 
pleasant. It grows well in Maryland near Baltimore, and with protection, or laying 
down would succeed well here. 
II. FOREIGN GRAPES. 
A. Color dark red, purple and black. 
6. BLACK HAMBURGH. 
Fruit large, wider than high, and growing in clusters shouldered on 
both sides. Color when ripe, black. Flesh sugary and rich. The 
vine bears well in the house, and sheltered, but does not ripen in 
the open air. 
7. BLACK PRINCE. 
Pig. 8. 
Fruit of the medium size, round, or slightly oval, growing 
in long thinly set clusters. Skin tough and thick, and 
thickly covered with a blue bloom. Flavor sweet and ex. 
cellent. Rarely ripens in the open air. 
8. BLACK MOROCCO. 
Fruit large, oval, higher than wide, or elongated. Reddish pur¬ 
ple, and running into black. Flesh green, seeds green and large ; 
taste slightly acid, though rich. Grows in large clusters, the 
berries of which have a thick skin. Downing remarks that it 
requires to be fertilized by the pollen of the Black Hamburgh, 
or some other hardy sort ;* that it is late in ripening, and requires 
for this end a good deal of heat. 
Fig. 5. 
* It is difficult to understand why it is essential to the ripening or perfection of a fruit of the grape kind, that it 
should be fertilized by the pollen of another variety. The pollen can have no influence, except upon the seed. The 
pollen of an apple blossom, falling upon the stigma of another variety of apple, will not have the least influence in 
