Excerpt from The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Vol. 7: Devoted to Horticulture, Landscape Gardening, Rural Architecture, Botany, Pomology, Entomology, Rural Economy, &C., January to December, 1852

Dean Sta -i notice in the Horticulturist for the current month, a communication from R. G. Passes, Esq., on the California Grape, in which it is stated on the authority of Capt. H of the U. S. Army, and lady, as far as their observation extended, and certainly in the vicinity of San Diego, there is no such thing as a native or wild growing grape to be found. Possibly in the vicinity of San Diego there may not be, but to my certain knowledge - native or wild growing grapes abound on the forks of the American river, the fruit of which I have seen and eaten. I have also been informed by Mr. Eu ssur Jonson, of this city, who has spent a year or more in the mining districts, and others, that the wild grape is abundant on the Upper Sacramento and its tributaries Feather river and its branches, the Yuba, Bear creek, dc.

The native grape resembles somewhat our native, the Fox, having berries, however, a little larger, of a shade darker color, and being less astringent, or jbry, and to us vegeta ble starved diggers, they were quite palatable.

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