. 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. 949. The Labrusca or Fox-Grape type, a, Niagara; 6, Brighton The Grape of history is the Old World Vitis vinifera, the "wine-bearing ; probably native to Asia. The paramount use of the Grape always has been the pro- duction of wine. A subsidiary value is the production of raisins; and another is
. 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. 949. The Labrusca or Fox-Grape type, a, Niagara; 6, Brighton The Grape of history is the Old World Vitis vinifera, the "wine-bearing ; probably native to Asia. The paramount use of the Grape always has been the pro- duction of wine. A subsidiary value is the production of raisins; 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 because 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 established on a unique and indigenous basis, and the fruits are grown to eat rather than to drink. So fully did the early American ventures follow European customs that the Grapes were usu- ally, planted on 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 stme of the slopes about Cincini:ati, where Longwcrth and others ciilti- vated the Grape fifty years and more ago. Those early experi- 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 Vitis). These species range from ocean to ocean and from the British possessions to the tropics. The species which has been most improved is Vitis Labrusca of the Atlantic slope
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