_Arkansas_ (13). _Catawba Tokay_ (4, 13, 18, 24, 39). _Cherokee_ (15). _Fancher_ (?24, 39). _Keller's White_ (39). _Lebanon Seedling_ (13, 18). _Lincoln_ (9). _Mammoth Catawba_ (39). _Mead's Seedling_ (39). _Merceron_ (39). MICHIGAN (16, 17). _Michigan_ (24, 39). MUNCY (3). MUNCY PALE RED (5). _Muncy, pale red?_ (4). _Omega_ (39). _Red Muncy_ (4?, 13, 18, 24, 28, 39). _Rose of Tennessee_ (18). _Saratoga_ (?24, 39). _Singleton_ (13, 18, 28,?39). _Tekomah_ (39). TOKAY (1). _Tokay_ (4, 28, 39). _Virginia Amber_ (18). _White Catawba_ (39). From many points of view the Catawba is the most interesting of our American grapes. The elasticity of constitution which enables it to adapt itself to many environments and therefore to succeed in a vast region; its possible existence for centuries in the wild state, for the records of a century have not divulged the secret of its origin, of its ancestry, or of its introduction; its high quality and attractive appearance which give it intrinsic value as a table grape and for making wine; the fact that it was our first great American grape and that after a century it is still one of the four leading varieties of grapes cultivated in eastern America and that after this lapse of time it is the chief of all northern varieties for wine-making; all these make Catawba of prime interest to the grower of American grapes. The Catawba, too, has had the rare distinction of having a poet, Longfellow, sing its praises: "Very good in its way is the Verzenay Or the Sillery, soft and creamy, But Catawba wine has a taste more divine, More dulcet, delicious and dreamy. There grows no vine, by the haunted Rhine, By the Danube or Guadalquiver, Nor island or cape, that bears such a grape As grows by the beautiful River." [Illustration: CATAWBA] In Chapter II, American Grapes, we have seen how important a part the Catawba played in the first grape regions of this country. It is still the leading grape along the shores of Lake Erie in northern Ohio, and about the Central Lakes of New York. In the latter region immense areas are devoted to this variety, the product going to the general market and to the wine-cellars where it is the chief sort used in the making of champagne. Its characters are such that it is not too much to say that did it but ripen two weeks earlier in the other grape regions of New York, the Chautauqua, Hudson and Ontario regions, the Catawba would rival the Concord. Because of late ripening in New York this variety is at its best only about the Central Lakes and on land extending back from the water to an altitude of one hundred feet above the lake surface; here as fine Catawbas are grown as anywhere in the world. As to soil, it thrives in sand, gravel or clay provided there be an abundance of food and humus, good drainage and plenty of bottom heat.