Category: Science - Biology
A single species of the grape is cultivated in the Old World. This is _Vitis vinifera_, the grape of ancient and modern agriculture, the vine of the allegories of sacred record and of the myths, fables and poetry of the Old World countries. It is the vine which Adam and Eve ca...
A single species of the grape is cultivated in the Old World. This is _Vitis vinifera_, the grape of ancient and modern agriculture, the vine of the allegories of sacred record...
3. CHAPTER IIThe grape is preeminently a North American plant. The genus Vitis is a large one, from thirty to fifty species being distinguished for the world; more than half of these are fou...
4. CHAPTER IIIThe history of the viticulture of eastern United States shows that the regions in which grapes have been most largely grown in the past have come into prominence, had their day,...
5. CHAPTER IVThe genus Vitis was formed and named by Tournefort,[113] a French botanist, more than two hundred years ago. In his work, _Institutiones Rei Herbariae_, published in Paris in 17...
6. CHAPTER V=1.= _Mag. Hort._, =27=:490. 1861. =2.= _Horticulturist_, =17=:94, 132, 518. 1862. _fig._ =3.= _Mag. Hort._, =28=:447, 540. 1862. =4.= _Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt._, =1862=:160. =5.= _U....
7. CHAPTER VI=Ada.= (Vin. Lab.) _Valk's Seedling._ (See page 56.) Originated in 1845 by Dr. Valk, of Flushing, Long Island, from Isabella fertilized by Black Hamburg. Vigorous, hardy; bunche...