. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 195-2 \7T1S VITIS species (possibl_v witli T. Ari^ouica or r. Doanl(ina), but it i-^ iiuw s(.i widely distributed and ^n>\vs .^o far removed from its supposed [larents ami occur>. in such great quantity in certain areas, that for tax- onomic pur])'>ses it must lie kept distinct. It is not unlikely that
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 195-2 \7T1S VITIS species (possibl_v witli T. Ari^ouica or r. Doanl(ina), but it i-^ iiuw s(.i widely distributed and ^n>\vs .^o far removed from its supposed [larents ami occur>. in such great quantity in certain areas, that for tax- onomic pur])'>ses it must lie kept distinct. It is not unlikely that it has origi- nated at different places as the product of unlike hybridizations. Late French writers designate tlie,lagged leaved forms as I'. iSo/otiis, and the den- tate forms as T'. Nnevo- Mexicana. This interest- ing Grape was found some thirty years ago by Enge!- mann in tlie Botanic Gar- den of Berlin under the name of Vifis !SoJo)ii>^, without hi>;t()ry. En gel- maun giirsses (: Cat. ed. ;i, 18) the name to be a c o r r u p t i o n of "Long'; It is probabb- that the plant was sent to European some places associated with T. raixJicans, Berla>idier} and tinniticoJii. only, and in others with the above and V. riipesfrh. Often composing dense tliickets in the wild. G"G. Diaphragms rerii fit /'â /,â aiid s tro v > n ii if t^hoots brif/hf led: Irs. ofinn sfronylij lohcd. \?,. nlbra, Michx. ( P. mouo- sp'-niia, Michx.). Red Cat Grape. A slender but strong - growing vine, with small, long-jointed angled red glabrous herb-like shoots and re<l ])etioles: Ivs. small to medium, ovate-acuminate, dark green and glossy, some- times indistinctly pubescent on the nerves below, the sinus obtuse, the blade either nearh^ continuous in out- line or (commonly) prominently lobed or even parted, coarsely notched : stamens in the sterile fls, long and erect: clusters loose and Inug-pedunrled, brancheil, the fls. opening vr'ry late ; Iterri
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