Land of the Scuppernong Grape
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Kit of the Scupper-
Big: Grape Was In
Kyrrell County
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Wp GUY A. CARDWELL
Iwtural and Industrial Agent
Hptic Coast Lini Railroad Co.
|B Scuppernong is probably the
cultivated variety of native
grapes. While the place
Bin cannot positively be stated,
■to the age of the variety, it
||W pretty definitely established
in Tyrrell County,
before 1760. From
soon distributed over
|§B eastern part of North Caro
|Hto Roanoke Island. In this
v .Biany large old Scuppernong
■■to be found. Many of these
s■] Bn to be over 100 or 125
An old vine growing
HjHnted by Sir Walter Raleigh
|Be the original Scuppernong.
■■ho have investigated most
origin of the variety,
■■ adhere to the theory that
vine grew wild in Tyr
■■nty, in the vicinity of the
River.
vicinity of its origin th?
■gas distributed throughout
■■■n part of North Carolina
HBBlanted in vineyards ranging
a few vines to many
of these vineyards
BHBy enlarged, but for a
BUnS'-ars past have been al
down. From these vine
■■■aricty was gra<lually dis-
the Coastal Plain and
IjgF * of the southeast-
Tstates. It has steadily
Hmreased in 'popularity and is today
Re leading variety of the Musadine
K rapes.
■ The vine is product
ive and a rank grower, with
long, yellowish canes,
■covered withWsmall light-brown dots
lor lenticels. J The fruit is practically
[free from fungous diseases and is
I very rarely attacked by insects. It
thrives best jin well drained sandy
loam soils, but it al3o thrives on thin
sandy soils. /
Scuppemor g grapes are not equally
Hpll adaptedylo all parts of North
Karolina states in the
Koutheast. MBsy reach their great
est in the Coastal Plain
section. Scuppemong is
sometimes incorrectly used to desig
fT&te other varieties having light
colored fruit, or even all the varieties
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of Musadine grapes, both light and
dark.. In the past some nurserymen
have sold other light-fruited varie
ties as the Scuppernong. Nevertheless,
the variety should be kept distinct,
and it is hoped that in the future nur
serymen will insist in keeping it true
to name by making sure that they
propagate the true Scuppernong.
Other light or dark fruited varieties
have other names or should be given
other names.
The pollination of Scuppernong
grapes has been studied very closely
by various investigators. It has been
determined that they are practically
self-sterile, notwithstanding the fact
that the blossoms have both pistils
and recurved pollen-bearing stamens.
In order to produce berries they must
, therefore be cross-pollinated with"the
fertile pollen of staminate Muscadine
vines. The male, or staminate, vines
of course produce no fruit. It is esti
mated that probably 75 per cent of
the wild Muscadine grapevines are
staminate. It has been pretty accu
rately established that the pollen is
carried from the male to the pistil
late, or female or fruiting, almost
entirely by insects. In the past there
has been a sufficient number of stam
inate vines and of insects to insure
the proper cross-pollination of vines.
Now, however, as the grapes are be
ing planted in large vineyards and
as the number of mild male vines is
being reduced through the clearing
up of the land, it becomes essential
to fruit production to plant male
vines here and there in the vine
yards. The opinion is common that
one staminate vine should be planted
for every eight or ten fruiting vines.
The system of training followed in
the growing of Scuppernong grapes
has been and still is mostly on over
head arbors. These vary from the
crudest supports under the scatter
ing vines seen about so many south
ern homes to the latest overhead wire
supports used in commercial plant
ings. These wire supports are prac
tically identical in construction with
the parrales supports used in Spain
in the growing of the Alerian or so
called Malaga grapes.
Two systems of training are em
played with Scuppernong grapes: (D
The horizontal or overhead system,
by which the growth is spread as an
overhead canopy about seven feet
above the ground and supported by
posts, and (2) the upright or vertical
system, in which the growth is spread
over a trellis.
In the overhead system a single
trunk is caused to grow erect from
the ground along side a permanent
post. When the vine has reached the
top of the post it is pinched in or
THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1&34.
I cut back, so as to make it throw out
t shoots to grow and spread out from
■ the head of the vine a3 the spokes
, of a wheel radiate from the hub.
, In the upright system the fruiting
■ arms are either radiated from a low
s vine head, like the ribs of a fan, or
r they are taken off as horizontal arms
. from a central vertical trunk.
Where the vineyard is not given
i close personal attention and pruning
and other vineyard practices are
. neglected the best results will be ob
■ tained with the overhead trellis.
Moreover, such a trellis permits cross
plowing and cultivation and is better
adapted for grazing hogs, sheep or
cattle on cover crops grown in the
vineyard. The upright system per
mits caring for more vines in lim
ited space and is well adapted for the
less vigirous varieties such as Flow
ers and James.
In the past seme persons have
advocated no pruning, others moder
ate pruning, and still others severe
pruning of Scuppernong and other
Muscadine vines. The safest plan is
to take an intermediate course and
follow moderate pruning until it is
proved that some other course is
better.
For a number of years there has
only been a limited market for
Scuppernong grapes, ■ but commenc
ing with last season a well known
firm of juice and wine-makers estab
lished agencies in almost every local
ity in Eastern North Carolina where
grapes are grown and bought all of
the Scuppemongs that they coulc
get. I have been told.'b". .this .firm
that they will again buy Scupper
nongs during the coming season,
and will take other varieties of Mus
cadine grapes at a price somewhat
lower than that paid for Scupper
nong grapes.
It is time that we gave more
thought to supplementing farm in
come with money from the sale of
grapes and other minor crops. Sure
ly the enforced acreage reduction in
cotton, tobacco, wheat, com and cer
tain other crops will leave thousands
of fields at loose ends unless we give
them 3ome attention.
A Real Start
"A real start towards returning
farm prosperity has been made in
North Carolina this year due largely
to the fine spirit of cooperation be
tween farmers themselves and their
government.”—Dean I. 0. Schaub.
Late snap beans grown in Avery
County are moving to outside mar
kets at good prices. The surplus is
being canned at Cranberry.
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