156 VINES AND VINE CULTURE. 



FERDINAND DE LESSEPS (50). An oval white Muscat Grape. Season: 

 mid-season. Merits : first-class in quality, but too small for general 

 cultivation. 



VINE. Growth strong and vigorous, producing strong, firm wood ; moderately 

 fruitful. Leaves large, deeply lobed, and cut ; somewhat rugose. 



FRUIT. Bunches small, tapering, with little or no shoulder, and closely set. 

 Berries below medium size, and oval in shape. Skin very thin and tender, of a 

 pale amber, or golden colour. Flesh tender, juicy, remarkably sweet and pleasant, 

 with a distinct aroma of the Strawberry, which scents the atmosphere of the 

 house wherein it may be growing. 



HISTORY, ETC. This peculiar Grape was raised by the late Mr. Pearson, from 

 a cross between Royal Muscadine and the Strawberry Grape, and was certificated 

 by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1870. 



CULTURAL NOTES. Will ripen in the same temperature as the Black Ham- 

 burgh, and under similar conditions. 



FLAME-COLOURED TOKAY. Lombardy . 

 FLEMING'S PRINCE. Trentham Black. 



FOSTER'S SEEDLING (15) Plate XIII. An oval white Sweetwater 

 Grape. Season: early, or first early. Merits: first-class in quality 

 as an early Grape ; a certain cropper, and one of the best white 

 Grapes in cultivation. 



VINE. Growth free and vigorous, the wood moderately robust, ripening freely ; 

 always very fruitful. Leaves large, deeply toothed and lobed, slightly downy, 

 and dying off yellow. 



FRUIT. Bunches medium-sized, well shouldered ; stalks slender, always well 

 set. Berries medium-sized, oval. Skin very thin, clear and transparent ; at 

 first of a greenish tinge, changing to a greenish yellow or nearly white when 

 fully ripe, and occasionally having a tinge of cinnamon-russet on the most exposed 

 side. Flesh tender and" melting, very juicy and pleasantly flavoured ; when 

 allowed to hang long after ripening, the skin becomes thick and leathery, and the 

 flesh hard. 



HISTORY, ETC. This fine Grape is a seedling raised by Mr. Foster, gardener 

 to Lord Downe, Beningborough Hall, York, from a cross between the Black 

 Morocco and the Sweetwater, and came from the same potful of seedlings as that 

 which produced the variety called Lady Downe's Seedling. This was about the 

 year 1835, but it was not sent out or distributed until many years afterwards, 

 and its merits were not recognised until about 1860. It is now to be found in 

 every collection. 



CULTURAL NOTES. This is one of the very finest of white Grapes, and one of 

 the easiest to cultivate ; it forces well, and succeeds along with the Black 

 Hamburgh, or in good seasons will ripen well in an unheated house. "We have 

 seen it with Mr. Dunn, at Dalkeith, exceedingly good as a late variety. 



FRANKENTHAL. Black Hamburgh. 



GARNSTON BLACK HAMBURGH. Black Hamburgh. 



GOLDEN BORDEAUX. Royal Muscadine. 



GOLDEN CHAMPION (17). An oval white Sweetwater Grape. 

 Season: early. Merits: first-class in quality, but constitutionally 

 weak and uncertain. 



