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Specializing in French-American Hybrids 
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The Schroeder Vineyard is a privately owned experimental 
vineyard, established to provide complete information on the 
many fine varieties that have been introduced in recent years, 
as well as the older varieties that have never been grown in 
this locality. We have become extremely interested in what 
are termed the “French-American Hybrids". These are new 
varieties obtained by hybridizing the old world species, Vitis 
Vinifera, with many of our native American species. These 
varieties have been chosen from immense numbers of seedlings, 
grown under the most adverse conditions in order to eliminate 
those lacking resistance to disease and insects. It is true 
that they are not all good, neither are they as an individual 
variety adaptable to all climates and soils. But this can be 
said--among them are varieties suitable to almost every part 
of the United States and to every soil type--for the table, 
juice or wine. Many have fruit closely appra@ching that of 
the fine vinifera varieties. Then too, our experiment stations 
have been busy, notably those of New York, Missouri, Oklahoma, 
and the USDA. (California too, but their interest lies with’ 
vinifera). Many fine varieties have been introduced, and 
several more will soon be released. 
Since our plantings are young, we are not able to give 
much cultural information on the behaviour of many varieties. 
We are endeavouring to defray the expenses of maintaining 
this planting by growing and selling a limited number of vines 
each year. The list which follows is a complete enumeration 
of each variety at present in our plant. The following 
symbols show what is available: 
Ce Cuttings only 
G. Grafted vines on various rootstocks 
tes Rooted cuttings of this season (1 yr. vines) 
Se 2 year vines. 
As the list is quite extensive, and quantities of each 
are small, we have omitted complete descriptions. If you 
Will tell susstuerexaol 10Ccat1on ~elevation, typo of soil, etc., 
where you wish to grow these grapes, we shall be happy to 
recommend the varieties most suitable. 
We also have available a 14 page mimeographed translation 
from the French describing almost all of the French hybrids. 
It will be sent on receipt of G1. We highly recommend two books 
by Philip M. Wagner; "A Wine-Grower's Guide" (1945) 3.00, and 
tAmerican Wines and How to Make Them" (1933) 2.50. Another 
recent book is "Grapes and Wines from Home Vineyards" by U. P. 
Hedrick (1945). These books are obtainable from us. 
