Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 512
d., on the banks of the Ohio, and with a variety of the wild Vitislabrusca, or fox grape, found near the Schuylkill River before the Revolu-tionary War. It was at first called the Cape grape, from a mistakennotion that it had been brought from the Cape of Good Hope. It was alsoknown by several… … 484 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY vineyard at Vevay, planted largely of this variety, was the first really suc-cessful one in America. The next forward step was the introduction of the Isabella and Catawba,both having originated in America, not long previous to 1820, although ofunknown…
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