646 KEPORT OF THE FRUIT COMMITTEE, 



Smith's Sweetwater :— This is not exactly a Sweetwater, but 

 a form of Rojal Muscadine, to which it bears a considerable 

 resemblance. It seemed, however, to differ from Royal Musca- 

 dine grown along with it, and was particularly rich in flavour, 

 while the latter was comparatively deficient in that respect. 



Stillward's Sweetwater is a true Sweetwater, with a good- 

 bized cylindrical, well-set bunch, with large transparent-skinned 

 berries. This was compared with Chasselas Vibert," which is so 



and more crackhng in the flesh than Stillward's Sweetwater, but 

 decidedly inferior to it in flavour. 



Foster's WHite Seedling is a fine grape, with a large showy 

 bunch, well set with rather large roundish-oval berries, and is 

 quite distinct in character from either the Royal Muscadine or 

 the Sweetwater. As an early grape it ripens with the Royal 

 Muscadine, and is of first-rate quality. 



Crimean Grape, from a vine presented to the Garden by Mr. 

 Moore, of Chelsea, was not quite ripe. 



A white Grape from a vine presented by Mr. Whiting, of the 

 Deepdeue, and named Syrian, proved to be very different from 

 that variety, and had more the appearance of the White Lisbon 

 imported from Portugal during the winter months. The fruit is 

 large and white, with a transparent skin, showing the texture of 

 the flesh below. The flesh is firm and crackling, watery, and 



Morisca preta :— A small round black grape, and a small 

 bunch. The flavour is sweet, but the grape possesses no merit. 



Muscat St. Laureat, and Muscat Cttonel, are two very small- 

 bunched and small-berried Muscat grapes. They have the full 

 Muscat flavour, but the flesh becomes mealy, and neither of 

 them has any merit besides earliness. They ripen before either 

 the Royal Muscadine or the Sweetwater, and in the opinion of 

 the Committee are not worthy of cultivation, except as objects of 

 curiosity. Being so early, might they not ripen out of doors 

 against a wall as freely as Black Cluster, or the Sweetwater? 



Muscat Hamburgh :— There was a very good bunch of this 

 variety, and the berries were both well developed and well 

 coloured. The great fault that has been found with it as grown 

 m the Garden in pots is, that a large proportion of the berries 

 are undeveloped. In this case, however, they were not so, and 

 were of good size, rich in flavour, and with a very marked Muscat 



