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Whether these wild grapes are found in Newfoundland I know not. The species of vines which grow in North America, are named by Linnaeus, Vitis labrusca, vulpina, and arborea. Forst. The propriety of the names imposed by the Norwegians on their new discoveries is admirable.
Pelopæus, the Mud-dauber, is now building its earthen cells, plastering them on old rafters and stone walls. The Selandria vitis attacks the vine, while Selandria rosæ, the Rose slug, injures the rose. The leaves should be sprinkled with a mixture of whale-oil soap and water, in the proportion of two pounds of soap to fifteen gallons of water.
The Parras monteses which yields the somewhat sour wine of the island of Cuba, was probably gathered on the Vitis tiliaefolia which Mr. Willdenouw has described from our herbals.
"The vine, of which the Lord said 'Ego vitis sum, is also the emblem of communion and the image of the eighth beatitude; corn, which, as the Sacramental element, was the object of peculiar care and respect in the Middle Ages. "You have only to recall the solemn ceremonial observed in certain convents when the wafer was to be prepared.
Among other points of resemblance with the living plane-trees, as we see them in the parks and squares of London, fossil fragments of the trunk are met with, having pieces of their bark peeling off. The vine of Oeningen, Vitis teutonica, Ad. Brong, is of a North American type.
If the genus Vitis had been unknown, the boldest believer in the modification of species would never have surmised that the same individual plant, at the same period of growth, would have yielded every possible gradation between ordinary flower-stalks for the support of the flowers and fruit, and tendrils used exclusively for climbing.