| Show roster of grape lists hundreds of varieties to most of us a grape is just a grape we know two kinds hinds sweet and sour but to the expert erpert in grope grape culture there are more distinct kinds than there are divisions of the human race worden concord bulck s herbert isabella ontario ripley broe ton caco dunkirk martha the list runs into hundreds of vames names and varieties rie ties divided broadly into three groupe group red white and blue more the burbanks of mhd th grape arbors are constantly evolving new varieties and just now are enthusiastic over a blue grape the sheridan evolved liy by the geneva N Y state experiment station which according to the farm journal la Is like ly to prove a serious rival to the concord which until how has been king of grapes incidentally it Is 19 interesting to note how the many varieties grown today have come into being all evolved from the wild grapes of our primeval forests 1 the concord for example was brought into the world 78 years ago by one ephraim bull who crossed a wild fox grape with his cultivated catawba variety |
