Florida Agricultural Experiment Station Scuppernong.-This is the most extensively grown and best known of all the muscadine varieties and is an example of the white-fruited type. There is considerable variation within this variety as is evidenced by the fact that fruit on individual vines may vary considerably in size, flavor, thickness and color of skin from bronze to dull green. There is enough difference in these strains to warrant care in the selection of those of superior quality for propagation. This variety has large berries of good quality, and ripens in mid-season. It is suitable for local markets, home use, or juice, and is excellent for wine. Thomas.-In Florida this variety is next in importance to Scuppernong. The berries are medium in size and reddish-purple in color. The quality is excellent and it is generally considered as one of the best table varieties. It ripens early and is suitable for local market and home use. James.-The berries are large, blue-black and of fair quality. It ripens somewhat later than Scuppernong, and is satisfactory for local market and home use. Flowers.-Berries are medium in size and black in color. It ripens late. Due to its poor quality this variety is adapted to culinary uses only. POLLINATION AND MALE VINES In the muscadine group of grapes it has been repeatedly ob- served that the female plants are self-sterile and require fer- tilization by pollen from male plants before they will set fruit. The failure of muscadine vineyards or arbors to set fruit often is due to the absence of nearby male plants to supply the needed pollen. The obvious correction of this condition is to obtain male vines from a nursery and set them near the female vines. It is likewise evident that male vines should be interplanted with female vines at time of planting so that this condition will be prevented. Recommendations as to the number of male vines in proportion to the female vines to set in a planting are quite variable, and until recently experimental data bearing on this point were very limited. Armstrong et. al. (1), working at Experiment, Georgia, with the Hunt variety, found that vines more than 50 feet distant from a male vine are reduced mate- rially in yield. Husmann (6) states that all of the catalogued and commer- cially grown muscadine varieties are pistillate or female-flowered and incapable of self-fertilization.