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afforded by the majority of summers, and is therefore not to be re- 

 commended for an out-door Grape. 



9. Royal Muscadine. 



Synonyms, according to riorticultural Society's Fruit Cata- 

 lof^ue : Amber Muscadine, Common Muscadine, Early 

 White TenerifFe, Chassehis, Chasselas Dore, Cha?selas de 

 Fontainebleau, D'Arbois, D'Arboyce (of Speechley), White 

 Chasselas, Pearl (of some), Amiens, llaisin de Champagne. 

 Bunch moderately large, seldom broadly shouldered ; berry mid- 

 dle-sized, round ; skin thin ; colour yellowish white, with some- 

 times a tinge of amber on the sunny side when the fruit is not grown 

 under glass ; pulp juicy, sugary, and pleasant, but devoid of any par- 

 ticular flavour. 'I'he young wood is slender and short-jointed, and 

 the leaves are rather small, with shallower and less acute divisions 

 than those of the Frontignans and some others. 



In addition to the synonyms given above, this Grape is commonly 

 called by gardeners the "White Muscadine;" it is also erroneously 

 called the " Sw'eetwater" by some persons, who distinguish the true 

 Sweetwater by the name of "Dutch Sweetw^ater." This is the sort 

 which is usually seen growing against cottage-walls in the southern 

 counties, where, in summers of average warmth, its fruit acquires an 

 eatable degree of ripeness, and might in all seasons be reckoned upon 

 for furnishing that best of all liome-made wines — grape-wine. It is, 

 how^ever, well w^orth a place in an early or a late vinery, as in the 

 first its fruit will be ripe before that of the Black Hamburgh, and in 

 the last it will not rot so readily in damp weather. 



10. White Sweetwater. 



Synonyms, according to Horticultural Society's Fruit Cata- 

 logue : Stilhvard's Sweetwater, Dutch Sweetwater, Water 

 Zoete blanc, Chasselas precoce, Chasselas royale. 



Bunch below the middle size, not much shouldered, frequently 

 formed of a few large and many very small berries, owing to im- 

 perfect setting. The perfect berry is large in size and round in 

 shape ; the colour is a faint yellowish white, and wall-grown fruit 

 often becom.es tinted with amber or russet on the side exposed to the 

 sun. 'J'he pulp is juicy and particularly sweet, but hardly superior 

 in flavour to sugar and water, as is aptly implied by its name. The 

 leaves are of a more shining green, and the young wood is grosser 

 than in the White Muscadine. 



This very early Grape is not much cultivated in vineries in this 

 country, chiefly in consequence of its shy setting, which defect can- 

 not easily be remedied by artificial impregnation, because the Sweet- 

 water wall open its flowers some days sooner than any other table 

 variety that might be grown in the same house. On open walls it is 

 liable to the same imperfection even in a greater degree, although it 

 is sometimes cultivated in such situations on account of its early 

 ripening. 



11. Scotch White Cluster. 



Synonym : Blacksmith's White Cluster. 

 Bunch short and compact, nearly destitute of shoulders, and the 



