 Instead, he numbered each hybrid and sent cuttings to interested fruit growers and horticulturists.A number of them were identified as having fruit quality superior to that of the native vines while being better adapted to North American conditions than the European cultivars.Problems during the dissemination of these vines resulted in confusion of certain selection numbers, and a few hybrids were assigned new numbers, and as a result a few selections bore numbers greater than 45.