. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 949. The Labrusca The Grape of history is the Old World Vitis vinifera, the "wine-bearing Vitis," probably native to Asia. The paramount use of the Grape always has been the pro- ductiiin of wine. A subsidia
. 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, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. 949. The Labrusca The Grape of history is the Old World Vitis vinifera, the "wine-bearing Vitis," probably native to Asia. The paramount use of the Grape always has been the pro- ductiiin of wine. A subsidiary value is the production of rai-;ins; and another is the production of fruit for the dessert and for culinary uses. Great efforts were made to introduce the cultivation of the European Grape into the American colonies, but the efforts resulted in failure. It was not until the latter part of the pres- ent century that the chief causes of this failure be- came known : the depredations of the phylloxera and mildew, —and even then the causes were discovered largely bi-cause these enemies had made incursions into the vineyards of Europe. In the meantime, one or two of the native species of Vitis had been ameliorated, and American viticulture had become estaldished on a unique and indigenous basis, and the fruits are grown to eat rather than to drink. 80 fully did the early American ventures follow European customs that the Grapes were usu ally planted on f^M terraced slopes,as "'' they are on the Rhine and about the continental lakes. Even to this day the ter- race ridges can be traced in seme of the slopes about Cincini-ati, where Longwcrth and others culti- vated the Grape fifty years and more ago. Those early experi- 950. The Labrusca type of Grap. ments finally failed because of the incursions of the black rot. Of all countries, North America is richest in species of Vitis (see the article I'itis). These species range from ocean to ocean and from the British possessions
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