EUROPEAN GRAPES DESCRIBED. 145 



BLACK TRIPOLI. Black Hamburgh. 



BOSTON. Black Prince. 



Bowoon MUSCAT. Muscat of Alexandria. 



BRADDICK'S SEEDLING HAMBURGH. Black Hamburgh. 



BUCKLAND SWEBTWATEB (20) Plate X. A round white Sweet- 

 water Grape. Season : early, useful for summer. Merits : very showy 

 and handsome, but second-rate in quality. 



VINE. Growth moderately strong and free, tolerably fruitful. Leaves similar 

 to those of Black Hamburgh, dying off a very pale yellow. 



FRUIT Bunches medium-sized, averaging from three-quarters of a pound to 

 two pounds in weight, rather short, with very broad shoulders ; always well-set. 

 Berries large or above the medium size, round. Skin thin, almost transparent, 

 greenish white, assuming a pale straw-yellow colour when fully ripe, and if 

 allowed to hang for any length of time it becomes almost white, and very 

 different in appearance from freshly ripened fruit ; the skin also becomes thick 

 and tough as well as the flesh, and the entire character of the Grape is altered. 

 Flesh thin, soft, juicy, and with a pleasant Sweetvvater flavour; when kept long 

 it becomes almost tasteless. 



HISTORY, ETC. This is an English seedling Grape, raised at Buckland, near 

 Ileigate, by a gentleman who brought the seed from the Continent. Cuttings of 

 the seedling plant were given to Messrs. Ivery & Son, nurserymen, Dorkiug, and 

 one or two other parties. Mr. Ivery grafted it on the Black Hamburgh, and was 

 successful in making it grow ; very bingularly all the others died, even the 

 seedling plant, so that Mr. Ivery held the entire stock, and sent it out to the 

 public about the year 1860. In some respects it resembles the Golden Hamburgh 

 went out a few years previously, and \vhich it soon displaced, becoming the most 

 popular white Grape. Excepting the Muscat of Alexandria and Foster's Seed- 

 ling, there is no other white Grape so often seen at exhibitions. 



CULTURAL NOTES. It succeeds admirably under the same treatment as the 

 Black Hamburgh, for which it forms a handsome companion ; but is not so 

 robust in constitution. 



BURCHARDT'S AMBER CLUSTER. Grove-End Sweetwater. 

 BURCHARDT'S Prince. Aramon. 

 BUSBY'S GOLDEN HAMBURGH. Golden Hamburgh. 

 CABAS A LA REINE. Muscat of Alexandria. 



CABRAL (12). An oval white Sweetwater Grape. Season: mid- 

 season. .Merits: a fine showy Grape, second-rate in quality. 



VINE. Growth strong and robust ; the wood somewhat gross, of a pale colour, 

 and very downy around the buds, which are very large. Leaves large, soft, and 

 covered with down, dying off yellow. 



FRUIT. Bunches medium-sized, short, with stout shoulders, generally well set. 

 Berries above the medium size, roundish oval, on short and very strong warted 

 loot-stalks. Skin thick and rather tough, of a pale yellow colour. Flesh firm, 

 juicy, sweet, but not rich. 



HISTORY, ETC. Grown in the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chiswick, 

 for some time. Not in general cultivation. 



CULTURAL NOTES. Requires heat to set it properly, and also to ripen the 

 fruit. 



