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are vines that have been found growing wild in and about our woods 
and swamps, hence our very meagre knowledge of their pedigree. It is 
of the utmost importance to know the parentage of a series of vines, 
at least several generations back, before principles of laws, governing 
the transmission of such characters as those heretofore mentioned, can 
be laid down with any degree of safety. 
Eig. 17.—Vitis l-otundifolia seeds. Thomas, Mish, Scuppernong, and James (natural size). 
Flavors are of variable characters, difficult to describe, because of 
their very complexity. Just a slight variation in one or the other of the 
many characters that go to make up this quality, will lend an entirely 
new color to a given combination. 
Probably a better way to study the flavors of fruits is to analyze 
them into their respective component parts, and to study these separ¬ 
ately as well as in combination with each other. Take for example 
the sugar content of grapes; it is a fact quite patent to the most casual 
observer, that different varieties of grapes differ materially in the 
