EUROPEAN GRAPES DESCRIBED. 147 



CAMBRIDGE BOTANIC GARDEN. Black Prince. 



CANON HALL MUSCAT (49). A round white Muscat Grape. Season: 

 late ; requires heat. Merits : remarkably handsome, and of excellent 

 quality, but inferior to Muscat of Alexandria for general purposes. 



YINE. Growth very strong and somewhat gross ; the wood being thick, soft, 

 and frequently not ripening well. Buds large. Leaves large, pale green, some- 

 what flabby, not so deeply lobed as the common Muscat, dying off yellow. 



FKUIT. Bunches large, or above the medium size, bat rather shorter often badly 

 set, with broad strong shoulders, and thick fleshy foot-stalks ; flowers have six 

 and seven stamens frequently. Berries very large, round, or nearly so. Skin thin, 

 pale straw-yellow. Flesh firm, juicy, very rich, and with a strong Muscat flavour. 



HISTORY, ETC. This is stated to be a seedling from the Muscat of Alexandria, 

 but its origin is uncertain. The earliest trace of it is at Canon Hall, Yorkshire, 

 from whence it was sent to Lord Bagot. It is figured in the Transactions of the 

 Horticultural Society, 2nd ser., i., 169. It was at one time largely cultivated, 

 a Yine or two being found in every collection of Grapes ; but it is every year 

 becoming scarcer. 



CULTURAL NOTES. Few Grapes have been the cause of so much trouble to 

 gardeners of the older school as the Canon Hall Muscat, through the difficulty 

 experienced in its satisfactory cultivation. It is of rather bad constitution, the 

 wood being often soft and pithy, and not ripening well ; thus many spurs become 

 blank. Again, it is difficult to set, excepting a high temperature is maintained, 

 and great care is taken to impregnate the berries artificially. Some of the largest 

 and finest examples we have heard of were grown by Mr. Kay, of Finchley, in 

 1891, the berries measuring three and three-quarter inches round, by four and a 

 quarter inches in length ; Mr. Kay grows it largely and with great success for 

 market purposes, realising a very high price. 



CHAMPION HAMBURGH. Mill Hill Hamburgh. 

 CHAMPION HAMBURGH MUSCAT. Muscat Champion. 



CHAOUCH (13). An ovate white Sweetwater Grape. Season: first 

 early. Merits : recommended as a pleasant early variety. 



SYN. Chavoush. 



YINE. Growth strong and robust ; fruitful. Leaves large. 



FRUIT. Bunches of medium size, long, somewhat loose, and frequently thinly 

 set, stamens deflexed. Berries large, roundish-ovate. Skin clear, transparent, 

 thin. Flesh very melting, juicy, sweet and pleasant, sometimes highly perfumed. 



HISTORY, ETC. A Grape named Chavoush was introduced from Turkey about 

 eighteen years ago, as stated in the first edition of Vines and Vine Culture, with 

 high commendations as being the favourite Grape of the Sultan, etc., but which 

 proved to be a coarse, late, worthless sort. Specimens of the true variety were 

 last season kindly sent - us by Herr Horvath, Funfkirchen, Hungary, which is 

 now described. It is, as stated by Herr Horvath, earlier than the Black Ham- 

 burgh, and is, in Constantinople, the favourite Grape, occupying the same 

 position there as the Chasselas does in Paris. 



CULTURAL NOTES. Ripens freely without much heat, but requires it to set the 

 fruit properly. 



CHAPTAL (22). A round white Sweetwater Grape. Season : r mid- 

 season. Merits: second-rate. 



YINE. Growth free and vigorous, the shoots always ripening well ; very fruit- 

 ful. Leaves medium-sized, dying off yellow. 



