ULSTER 414 VERGENNES 416 _VITIS AESTIVALIS_, shoot of 138 VITIS, CANES OF SPECIES OF 100 VITIS, FLOWERS OF 104 _VITIS LABRUSCA_, SHOOT OF 150 _VITIS RIPARIA_, Shoot of 118 _VITIS ROTUNDIFOLIA_, Shoot of 108 VITIS, SEEDS OF SPECIES OF 102 _VITIS VINIFERA_, SHOOT OF 154 WALTER 420 WILDER 424 WINCHELL 426 WOODRUFF 428 WORDEN 430 WYOMING 432 WYOMING, SHOOT OF 152 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK CHAPTER I THE OLD WORLD GRAPE 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 cared for:-- "* * * they led the vine To wed his elm; * * *." _Milton._ It is the vine which Noah planted after the deluge; the vine of Judah and Israel, and of the promised land. Dionysus of the Greeks, Bacchus of the Romans, found the grape and devoted his life to spreading it; for which he was raised to the rank of a deity--god of vines and vintages. The history of this grape is as old as that of mankind. It has followed civilized man from place to place throughout the world and is one of the chief cultivated plants of temperate climates. This fruit of sacred and profane literature has so impressed itself upon the human mind that when we think or speak of the grape, or vine, it is the Old World species, the vine of antiquity, that presents itself.