. 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. VITIS 23. bicolor, LeConte ( ^hmson). Blue Grape, or Summer Grape of the North. Fig. 2701. A strong, high-climbing vine, with mostly long internodes and thick diaphragms, the young growth and canes gener
. 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. VITIS 23. bicolor, LeConte ( ^hmson). Blue Grape, or Summer Grape of the North. Fig. 2701. A strong, high-climbing vine, with mostly long internodes and thick diaphragms, the young growth and canes generally perfectly glabrous and mostly (butnot alway glaucous - blue, tendrils and petioles very long: Ivs. large, round cordate- ovate in outline, glabrous and dull above and very heavily glaucous - blue below, but losing the bloom and becoming dull green very late in the season, those on the young growth deeply li- ft-lobed and on the older growths s h a 11 o w 1 y 3- lobed, the basal sinus running from deep to shallow, the margins mostly shallow-toothed or sinuate - toothed (at least not so prominently notch-toothed as in V. aestivalis): cluster mostly long and nearly simple (sometimes forked), generally with a long or prominent peduncle: the purple aud densely glaucous berries of medium size (Kin. or less in diam. I, sour but pleasant-tasted when ripe (just before frost): seeds rather small. Abundant northwards along streams and on banks, there taking the place of V. aestivalis. Ranges from New Eng. and 111. to the mountains of W. North Carolina and to W. Tenn. —Well distinguished from V. mstivalis (at least in its northern forms) by the absence of rufous tomentum, the blue-glaucous small- toothed leaves, and long petioles and tendrils. It has been misunderstood because it loses its glaucous char- acter in the fall. 24. Caribaea, DC. Fig. 2702. Climbing, with flocculent- woolly (or rarely almost glabrous) and striate shoots: tendrils rarely continuous: Ivs. cordate-ovate or e
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