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Cambridge Botanic Garden, large, oval, brownish black, with fine 

 bluish bloom, flesh firm, sweet, and highly flavoured. Here is a 

 grape equal to Black Prince, and which is often mistaken for that 

 fine grape, and which may be ripened on a wall perfectly in ordinary 

 seasons. This variety was found on a south wall in Cambridge 

 Botanic Garden, where, except in very cold and wet seasons, it 

 produced large crops, and ripened its fruit early in the season. Its 

 origin is quite unknown. 



Espenone, large, round, jet black, covered with blue bloom, flesh 

 very juicy, sweet, and rich, bears abundantly, and generally con- 

 sidered the best of all wall grapes. It is, at all events, a vigorous 

 grower and an excellent dessert grape, and woiild alone redeem wall 

 grapes from the contempt in which they are held, if people would 

 destroy their Sweetwaters and July clusters and plant Esperiones 

 instead. 



White Somain, small oval, rich amber, transparent, very sweet 

 and rich, bears abundantly. 



Miller's Burgundt/, an excellent out-door black grape, which 

 may be distinguished from all other varieties by the hoariness of its 

 leaves. It is one of the best black grapes for the wine-press, and 

 ripens perfectly in English gardens. 



I shall remain content with recommending these seven sorts only. 

 I can name five-and-twenty varieties for walls, for any readers w'^'o 

 want to plant extensively, and have as much variety as possible. But 

 my advice to a friend would be, have two or three vines of each of 

 these sorts first, and add others as you get used to the cultivation 

 of them, and can judge for yourself whether to plant only varieties 

 that are very hardy, or to try a few that are rather tender in con- 

 stitution. If the position of the garden is sheltered, and the wall 

 faces south, and the soil is sandy and dry, and the border gets its full 

 share of sun-heat, I should recommend the planting of the following 



GRAPES FOE TEST FAVOUEAELE SOUTn WALLS. 



CJiasselas Jlusque, round, greenish white, or pale amber, flesh 

 firm, rich, sugary ; a most delicious gi-ape ; in fact, one of the finest 

 dessert grapes known. My esteemed friend, C. Roach Smith, Esq., 

 the eminent antiquary, of Strood, in Kent, grows this grape to per- 

 fection on a warm south wall. I tasted some of the produce on the 

 loth of September last ; the bunches were then just ripening, and 

 the forwardeat berries were delicious. 



JEarhj Smyrna Frontignan, medium size, round, bright amber, 

 very juicy and delicious. This is a very early grape, and always 

 ripens on a good wall, but only on a good wall does it prove fruitful 

 and of good quality. 



Muscat St. Laurent, small, oval, pale amber, juicy, with a high 

 muscat flavour. It is early and reliable. Where Chasselas Musque 

 does not come to perfection, this may be tried in place of it. 



Muscat Lierval, medium, round, deep purple, with light bloom, 

 flesh rich and sugary, with trace of muscat flavour. An excellent 

 early grape, but rather shy in setting. 



Black Hamhurg needs no description. It is the most useful 



