SCUPPERNONG

a grape of the Muscadin family and one of the most famous of the several varieties native to the Southern States. It takes its name from the Escaper nong tribe of Indians. It is mentioned in the records of the first explorers, and the wine from it has been in great favor since the earliest settlement of the country. The Scuppernong grows singly or in small groups, instead of in large clusters or bunches. It does not bear profitably in the Northern States, but it grows freely and bears lavishly, both wild and cultivated, in the South. The berries ripen individually and are in some vineyards gathered from the ground as they fall from the vines. In others, they are picked from the vines as they mature. They are the biggest of all cultivated grapes, being frequently double the size of the largest Concord. The several varieties may be grouped into “white,” or green, and “purple,” the former being the more noteworthy. The “white” berry is dull green, frequently spotted with brown. The Scuppernong is not a particularly good table grape—its flesh is sweet, but marked by a musky odor and taste which is displeasing to some palates, and it is more perishable and consequently more difficult of transportation than other varieties— but it makes excellent wines, cla ed as “Scuppernongs,” white and red, dry and sweet, still and sparkling—the best known being a sweet, aromatic, still, white wine of golden hue. The Scuppernong, unlike other wine grapes, is generally allowed to spread as widely as it wishes, a single vine frequently covering one or more acres, being supported and trained over arbors. SEA GRAPE, or Shore Grape: the pleasing purplish-red fruit of a broad-leafed bushy plant found in Florida, the West Indies and elsewhere. It has no relation to the true grape, taking its title only from its UA”; add clustered growth on long pendulous stems. » Tra» 9% 29% InP Pr SEA-KALE: a vegetable found wild along the Western coasts of Europe, and cultivated to an increasing extent in England and the United States. The young shoots, if properly blanched, are tender and of a delicate nutty flavor. They are prepared for table in the same way as asparagus. SEALING WAX: is composed of shellac, resin and Sea Grapes turpentine, together with some pigment (generally red or black). It was originally used for sealing public documents, and later for sealing fruit jars! It has more recently been supplanted in the latter use by paraffin wax and similar devices. [s. 568]