Evening journal., 1901-10-21

NAo fAhO Ndc OHeIbu lot SAFE b
plants were sold by Prentiss.
covererat 81 a plant. The sale Of "a
continued to be large annually ID
or three years, but when the
came into general bearing it was
that. although it was a delicious
II had not the qualities necessl
make it a profitable market grapl
The trouble with all white Il
has been fraiIty of berry. lack
nacity at the stem and a dispositE
do well only in isolated places
calities of peculiar climatic inAu
Thus the Duchess. one Of the chN
OF white grapes. can be grown L
vantage in only one locality inn
7 country. and that is at Vine VI
ON Canandaigua lake. The Dk
belt. even there, is limited, AMI
grape, few rods off that belt ii.
direction. cannot be successfully e
The Lady Washington is a gra
delightful. flavor, but it will notf
long after picking, and tI1fling +
ton of the bushes tends to the
ing of the berries from the stem.
These were faults in white "A
grown in this country that experik
al vineyardists have been for veal
deavoring to overcome. They wei
lieved to,be due to the presence oV
eign strains in all the crossinf|
which the various vines had been
duced. Thirty years ago c. L. II
of Lockport, began experimental
producing a marketable white
and accepting the theory that 70
blood IN all previously discoI
white grapes was the cause Of thd|
ure, he used in his experiment.
cross between grapes unless the
gree of each vine was unmista
known. and the absence of any FOL
strain in its production was abso.I
certain. and unless every precaI
had been taken to prevent accidI
cross4fertilizatiOn from the fol
bred vines.
Among the white grapes which,
vious experimenters had propad
was one known as the Cassidy.
vine was not productive and the
was small in bunch and berry. n
was a pure native. This was crd
with the sturdy old Concord. and
result was the now familiar yellol
green grape known as the Niagara
only real marketable grape that cd
classed as white that has yet respoI
to the efforts OF vineyardists, althl
as a delight to the palate it can il
way compare with any of the v
grapes that lack it's necessary quail
hardness and tenacity on the stem.
IF it could only be marketed, q
lovers in the North might enjoy
most delicious grape. in my est
ton. that grows anywhere on q
although Northern vineyards affeJ
deride it.. and that is the ScupperI
of North Carolina. North CARD
by the way. is a natural nursery OF
grape. the like Of which probably
not appear in any other State or T
tory of the Union. In all the @
grape growing districts of the IN
States the vineyards are of stock
native TO their soils.
North Carolina grapes, of W
there are innumerable varieties.
originated in the State, and at
two important American grapes gr
extensively in the North. the Cata
and the Isabella. are natives of n
Carolina-the Catawba having its
gin on Cane creek, Buncombe col
100 years ago. and the Isabella
Wilmington, five or six years i
The Delaware grape is believed
to be the result of a graft on the
of a wild summer grape native
North Carolina. But the pride OF
Tar Heel State is the Scuppern
which is a big russet-green berry,
of meat and flavor.
More than a century ago the
Charles Pettigrew, a clergyman,
naturalist. roaming in the wilds
Tyrell county. along the waters of
ScuppernOng river, found a wild &
vine. He had a plantation in
county. and he dug up the vine, tr
planted it to his own ground and c
waited il. The vine was a natural S
ling of a muscadine or fox grape.
under cultivation it produced a e
the like Of which is not known. +
cuttings of that transplanted and
mesticated vine the State Of n
Carolina was stocked with the &
which is now its pride, and to W
Dominic Pettigrew gave the nam
ScuppernOng, for the river of that
original name. the meaning of W
no one seems to know.
This grape will not grow mort
the line OF North Carolina, nor to
extent west of the central part of
state. 1t does not grow in bun,
but in separate groups of two or Il
and must be picked one at a tim,
tree fruit is. For this reason Mort
vineyardists declare that the ScuT
nong is not a grape, but a plum.
The ScuppernOng viii not be {
med. 1t must run at its own S
will. There are in North Care
vineyards single Scuppernong ,
that cover more than half an acre.
Scuppernong is never sick, n
fails of crop, and is always a pre-
bearer. But it will not keep any le
of time after being picked, and will
stand shipment. For this reason
Northern market is bereft of the
delicious morsel of fruit in that
that grows beneath the sun.
The table grapes that come to
York market from California are c
ly Hungarian grapes of the Tokay
riety and the Spanish muscats.
fornia grows only foreign grapes,
in no other vine region in the v
are the rich varieties of grapes Of G
known foreign nativity found gro
side by side q fact that makes of