In the Roanoke Island in North Carolina the old mother Scuppernong vine still exists, as was pointed out in the first volume ("Foods and Their Adulteration"). Around the Scuppernong vine is entwined a romance of early times in America, which has been celebrated by Miss Sallie South-all Cotten in a novel entitled the "Legend of the White Doe." This is a story of the fate of Virginia Dare, the first white child born of English parents on the soil of North America. The disappearance of this child, together with that of an entire party of colonists, is a mystery which history has not solved. The legend runs that this beautiful young girl was turned by Indian sorcery into a white doe, which, being shot by a silver arrow, returned to human form, and dying, her heart's blood fertilized a seedling vine, the fruit from which yielded a deep red wine instead of the white juice usual to this grape.