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ripen its fruit out of doors under favourable circum- 

 stances. The bunches are rather long, and the grapes 

 of a good size, when weJl thinned out, The flesh is 

 white, sweet, juicy, and nice-flavoured; and when the 

 grape is pulled from the stalk, a red receptacle, covered 

 with the white flesh, is left. The seeds are numerous 

 and large, the leaves are broad, thick, long in the stalk, 

 tinged with red, not deeply cleft, broadly serrated, and 

 , changing in autumn to pale red and purple. The vine 

 is a great bearer, and the grapes colour well. 



The Black Cluster is quite one of the best out-of- 

 doors grapes we have, so good that it has been stated 

 that it might be grown with us out of doors for wine, 

 It is the real Burgundy. In Burgundy it is highly es- 

 teemed for wine ; it is extensively grown for that purpose 

 on the Bhine and Moselle, and is much used for cham- 

 pagne. The bunches are small, cylindrical, and com- 

 pact; the grapes round, or a little oval, thin in the 

 skin, blue-black, covered with bloom, juicy, sweet, and 

 rich in flavour. It ripens well against a wall in the 

 open air. This is better than Miller's Burgundy (which 

 has downy leaves), the grapes of which are also not so 

 large. 



The Pitmaston White Cluster is rather larger than 

 the Black Cluster, compact in the bunch, and shouldered; 

 it ripens on a south wall earlier than the Sweetwater; 

 the fruit is round, a little flattened at the top, amber- 

 coloured when ripe, rather bronzed, with russet next the 

 sun, and pleasant in flavour. 



Among these, perhaps the best kinds to select are the 

 Esperione, Black Cluster, Chasselas, Black Hamburgh, 

 Black Prince, and Sweetwater, on walls which are pretty 

 well placed ; and in less favourable localities try the 

 White Cluster, or White Chasselas. 



