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THE JEFFERSON
RICHMOND, VA.
With the addition of 300 bed rooms, cafe, private dining room, etc., this far-famed Hotel is
more magnificent, attractive and secure, than ever before. Booms single and en suite, with and
without private baths. Long distance phones in every room.
The many points of historic interest in, and around the City, make Richmond a very desir
able stop-over place for tourists, where they can enjoy the equable climate, thus avoiding extreme
changes of temperature.
PINE FOREST I IN IN
SUMMERVILLE, S. C.
Most attractive Winter Resort in the South.
ABSOLtJTELY DRY CLIMATE. Located
in heart of Pine Forest. ROOMS EN SUITE
WITH PRIVATE BATH. ALL MODERN
IMPROVEMENTS. INCLUDING ELEVA
TOR. Special attention given to table and
service. PURE WATER from Artesian well
on Grounds. Elegant 18 hole Golf Links:
NONE BETTER. Tennis, Bowling, Billiards,
etc. Our own Livery, best saddle and driving
horses. For rates and further information
address A.H. Buck, Manager, or F.W. Wage
ner & Co., Owners, Charleston, S. C.
Social and
Scenic
Centre.
Desirable
Patronage.
No Hay
Fever.
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18-HoIe Golf.
. Gun Club.
Casino.
Garage.
Symphony
Orchestra.
June to
October
13 PRIVATE COTTAGES TO RENT.
Correspondence Invited, Illustrated booklet
Maplewood, Bethlehem, n. h.
LEON H. CILLEY, Mgr. Offices. Boston 24 Milk St.
New York, 1619, Broad Exchange Bldg.
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THE LEXINGTON
PINEHURST N. C.
Pleasant Location, Hot and Cold Baths,
Electric Light, Steam Heat.
Mrs. E. C. Bliss.
An American Triumph
Few persons realize that America
as represented by the greatest
of the world's silversmiths, The
Gorham Co. is producing to day
articles for household and table use
in sterling silver that have all the
fire and spirit of the best examples
of the past.
Gorham Silverware
is now nearly a hundred years
old. It has accumulated a fund
of experience and tradition. The
famous Gorham trade mark
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STERLING
is recognized all over the world.
It means workmanship that excludes
the slightest flaw. It guarantees
substantial weight. Insist upon this
mark when you purchase silver.
All the best jewelers carry Gorham
Silverware in stock. No others are
permitted to handle it.
THE GORHAM CO.
NEW YORK
GORHAM 81LTER POLISH the best for cleaning illrer.
There's an Ideal Summer Home in Maine For You
NEW MT. KINEO HOUSE
Elaborately enlarged and improved for 1911. Kineo boasts the greatest trout
togue and landlocked salmon Ashing in America, "great" hurTting, canoe
ing, golf, mountain climbing, etc. Superb scenery; healthful, bracins
climate; no hay fever. Handsome booklets free. uracu);
CA.JUDKINS, - Manager,
KINEO, Moosehead Lake, MAINE.
JLarg-eat Vine in the World One of
'Sig-lit" at Historic Itoanolt Inland
NORTH Carolina is the
birthplace so to speak,
of at least two distinct
species of grape, the
Catawba and the Scup
pernong, so plentiful
round about Pinehurst.
The Catawba was found
early in the last century
along the stream of that name in the
Piedmont section of the state and was
carried to the west by Longworth, the
noted Vine-grower, who had been called
the "Father of the grape in the United
States." One of the greatest of American
being the bullace or muscadine, a grape
having a wide distribution in a number
of states and in various sections of the
country. The Scuppernong is a light
colored grape and the expert sent out by
the government finds it a distinct variety,
having nothing in common with the
black grape. He finds that there are
other black grapes, however, including
the James, the Misch, etc., which are in
some cases extremely large, grow pro
fusely, and respond to cultivation.
It has long been claimed that the
parent vine of the Scuppernong is upon
Roanoke Island, but this does not seem
to be true. This vine has been there
certainly since long before 1707, and
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THE LARGEST GRAPEVINE IN' THE WORLD
Main trunk of famous Scuppernong grapevine on Roanoke Island; seven feet, six inches
circumference. Formerly covered two acres and yielded two hundred bushels annually.
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poets has sung the story and the merits
of the Catawba grape.
The other distinctly native grape, the
Scuppernong, has a history which
reaches very far back. It is said that
properly, the name is spelled Escaper
nong, this being the Indian name of a
river in the eastern part of the state.
The United States government has dur
ing the present year, been making special
researches regarding the scuppernong.
When the whites from England landed
here as colonists in 1583-4, they set it
forth in their chronicles that Roanoke
Island, where they landed, was in August
so full of grapes that the vines reached
down to the very water itself. Thev did
not specify whether these were black
grapes or white ones. Of black grapes
there is no end, all the way from
the sea to the mountains, among these
hence it is the oldest fruiting plant in
America, for its clear record began that
year, when the land on which it stands
was bought by Maurice Baum, It was
then a very old vine, for Baum's father
told him that when a boy he had eaten
grapes from it. There are some records
which go to show that the vine was in ex
i stance a hundred years previous to the
date named. It originally covered nearly
two acres, and the five great trunks which
form the vine threw out runners which
in some cases were one hundred feet in
length. The vine has been fertilized by
the use of bones,but in comparatively re
cent years less and less care has been
given it, until now it covers only about a
fouth of an acre. Paul Garrett, a great
wine maker of the South, has endeavored
vainly to purchase this vine, but the
owner, Benjamin F. Meekins, has refused