10 THE RAISIN INDUSTRY. 



latter we should, of course, count the California raisins; but, unfortu- 

 nately, our raisin-growers have not until quite recently recognized the 

 necessity of adopting names which should at once show the locality 

 where the raisins are produced. But we will return to this further on. 



VARIOUS KINDS OF RAISINS. 



a. Sun-dried raisins. 



1. Muscatels, or Muscats, from Malaga or California. The former, 

 / also known at various periods as "Solis," or sun-dried, or "great rai- 

 sins, ' ' on account of their very superior qualities. 



2. Currants, raisins made of the small currant grape, originally 

 from Corinth. 



3. Belvideres, raisins from Calabria, in Italy, and from the Islands of 

 Lipari and Pantallaria, near Sicily. 



4. Black Smyrna, properly only a dried grape, not exported to this 

 country. 



5. California Malagas, made from the Malaga grape. 



6. California sun-dried Sultanas, made from the Sultana grapes in 

 this State. And, lastly, 



/ 7. Seedless Muscatels, made in California, and being the smallest 

 ^Muscats separated from the larger seed-bearing berries. 



8. Thompson Seedless, a new, very promising raisin now being 

 produced in this country from vines imported originally from Constan- 

 tinople, producing seedless grapes, slightly larger than the Sultanas. 



9. Dried grapes of any description, especially wine grapes, exported 

 from this and Mediterranean countries for wine-making to France, 

 England and the Eastern States. 



b. Dipped raisins. 



10. Lexias, or Dipped Muscatels, from Denia, Valencia, Alicante, 

 in Spain. 



11. California Dipped, especially second-crop Muscatels. Proper 

 name not yet established. 



12. Smyrnas, which again may be either Sultanas, Chesmes or 

 Elemes. The first from the Sultana grape, the two latter, the ' ' red ' ' 

 grapes, from Dipped Muscatels. 



13. Faros, from Algarve, in Portugal, not known in this country. 



c. Dried in the shade. 



14. Huasco raisin, from Chile. To this list might be added many 

 more varieties of less importance. 



RAISIN DISTRICTS. 



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FOREIGN DISTRICTS. 



RAISINS IN ANCIENT TIMES. 



Previous to the production of raisins in California within the last 

 twenty years, the raisin industry of the world was entirely confined to 

 the Mediterranean district of Europe and Asia. At that period, however, 



