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burgh had its champions with regard to its distinctive features, but there are not 

 many growers now who are proud of producing it. From France, we have 

 received it under the names of Gros Bleu, Chasselas de Jerusalem, and Musca- 

 tellier Noir ; but these are merely modern nursery names. In France proper, this 

 Grape is scarcely known, excepting under the English name of Black Hamburgh 

 or the German one of Frankenthaler. In the Revue Horticole, 1882, 480, a 

 coloured figure of a Grape named Violet Kish-mish Ali is given ; this variety is 

 stated by M. Pulliat to be distinct from the Black Hamburgh by reason of the 

 foliage dying off red, but this character is, as already stated, not constant. 



Amongst the many remarkable Black Hamburgh Vines in this country, the 

 following may be noted : 



1. The Vine at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Park, fig. 19, which completely 

 fills a house one hundred and thirty-eight feet four inches long and twenty feet 

 wide, and has a stem three feet eight inches in circumference. This noble Vine 

 is nearly twice the size of the one at Hampton Court, and is in perfect health 

 and vigour ; the produce being good. The crop of 1879 was two thousand 

 bunches, of an average weight of three-quarters of a pound, or a total of one 

 thousand five hundred pounds of Grapes. 



2. The Great Vine at Hampton Court, which, if not the largest, is probably 

 the best known. This, which is stated to be one hundred and twenty years old, 

 fills a house sixty-five feet long by thirty feet wide, and has a main stem three 

 and a half feet in circumference. This Vine is in remarkably good health, and 

 annually bears a large crop of small bunches as many as one thousand seven 

 hundred in one season. 



3. Another celebrated Vine is that planted by the late Mr. P. Kay, at 

 Finchley, which, in 1862, when six years old, entirely filled a house ninety feet 

 in length and eighteen feet in width, and which annually produces prodigious 

 crops of magnificent Grapes. 



4. The Vine at Manresa Lodge, Eoehampton, the largest Vine in this country, 

 planted in 1862, filling a house four hundred and twenty-four feet long, and pro- 

 ducing a crop of eight hundred bunches of excellent fruit. 



5. The Vine at Sillwood Park, Sunninghill, a descendant of that at Cumber- 

 land Lodge, and filling a house one hundred and twenty-nine feet in length by 

 twelve feet in width. It is in excellent health ; the main stem straight, about 

 three feet in circumference, and rising near the front, about the centre of the 

 house, nine or ten side branches being trained horizontally, and supplying the 

 bearing rods. The crop averages one thousand eight hundred bunches of fair size 

 annually. 



6. The Vine at Kinnell House, Breadalbane, Scotland, stated to have been 

 planted in 1832, and now to cover a house one hundred and seventy-two feet 

 long by twenty-five feet broad. 



CULTURAL NOTES. The Black Hamburgh is the standard and national Grape 

 of England ; the most generally grown, and by far the best. It is, moreover, 

 the easiest of all Grapes to cultivate, the treatment required being of the ordinary 

 character, as recommended in the previous chapters. It is the gardener's friend 

 amongst Grapes. Many examples of superior cultivation might be mentioned. 

 Amongst extraordinary results, Mr. Hunter, of Lambton Castle, has the honour 

 of having grown the largest bunch of this variety, which was exhibited at Belfast 

 in 1874, and weighed twenty-one pounds twelve ounces. A second bunch, 

 weighing thirteen pounds two ounces, also grown by Mr. Hunter, was shown in 

 Manchester in 1875. Mr. Meredith, of Garston, had a bunch weighing nine and 

 a half pounds in 1865. Mr. Kayne, Chelmsford, a bunch weighing eight pounds 

 fourteen ounces, in 1860. Mr. Davis, at Oakhill, in 1858, a bunch weighing 

 eight and a half pounds, the single berries of which measured four and a half 

 inches in circumference. 



