NOTICE OF A NEW GRAPE. 297 



ago I sowed some seeds of grapes disfigured by wasps, of the 

 White Muscat, White Hamburgh, or Large White Nice, White 

 Muscadine, and White Sweet-water ; the Frontignan I did not 

 grow at tlie time. These were gathered and sown promiscuously, 

 so tliat I cannot say positively from which of these sorts the 

 variety in question has originated. My opinion is, that it is 

 between the White Nice and the Muscat ; these grew side by 

 side. In the following autumn, after the seedlings came up, two 

 were planted by the side of each vine already growing ; and the 

 shoots trained up the rafters inside. Most of these have fruited, 

 but proving worthless have since been cut away. I reserved 

 three, besides the one which is the subject of this communi- 

 cation, but they are much inferior to it : for this I made space by 

 cutting away the original vine, a Black Hamburgh, by the side of 

 which it was planted. It differs most distinctly from the White 

 Frontignan, from the time of showing fruit, until, and when, 

 ripe. In showing its fruit the branches are very long, on amaz- 

 ingly stout footstalks, which strut diagonally from the vine in a 

 manner very different from any I grow. At this stage they are 

 very conspicuous throughout the house. After this the berries 

 assume a dark-green colour, the Frontignan is of a pale-green ; it 

 shoulders, the Frontignan does not ; the bunch tapers to a point, 

 the Frontignan is more cylindrical ; the footstalk throughout the 

 bunch is very stiff, the Frontignan hangs loosely. In flavour it 

 approaches the Frontignan more than any other grape ; but even 

 in this respect it differs materially, the berry in the mouth having 

 more substance, and being more sugary and stoeetmeat like ; when 

 ripe it assumes a dark-gold colour. The berries have their 

 pedicels well extended, so that much thinning is not required. 

 With regard to the foliage, on first breaking it has not that 

 white mealy appearance which the Frontignans have ; it more 

 resembles the Black Hamburgh in all its habits of growth. In 

 ripening this variety is rather later than the Frontignan, and 

 has not shanked with me, nor shrivelled in the berry, as does 

 the Frontignan. 



•' I have grown thirty rafters of grapes in three houses, of the 

 leading kinds, within the last sixteen years, and I can assert 

 that it is decidedly distinct from any that I grow. Its habit of 

 growth is strong and robust ; and altogether I consider it a 

 valuable variety." In this opinion I concur. 



