EUROPEAN GRAPES DESCRIBED. 187 



CULTURAL NOTES. This Grape requires to be grown in a warm Muscat 

 house ; a little extra care is necessary for the setting of the berries. 



ST. LAURENT (55). An oval white Muscat Grape. Season : first 

 early. Merits : first-rate in quality ; one of the best of the small 

 Muscat Grapes. 



SYN. Muscat St. Laurent. 



VINE. Growth moderately strong ; very fruitful. Leaves small, roundish, 

 slightly serrated. 



FRUIT. Bunches small, very compact, very closely and freely set. Berries 

 small, roundish oval. Skin very thin, of a pale amber-yellow colour. Flesh 

 tender, very juicy, sweet, and pleasant, with a strong Muscat flavour. 



HISTORY, ETC. Received from Messrs. Rivers, and fruited at Chiswick. 



CULTURAL NOTES. Well adapted for culture in pots, being extremely 

 fruitful ; it ripens in good seasons on the open wall. 



ST. PETER'S. Alicante. 



SARBELLE FRONTIGNAN (47). A round black Muscat Grape. 

 Season : early. Merits : of excellent quality, but too small in bunch 

 and berry. 



SYN. Muscat de Sarlelle. 



VINE. Growth moderately strong with a free constitution ; free -fruiting. 

 Leaves small, roundish, deeply toothed. 



FRUIT. Bunches small, and rather loose ; setting indifferently. Berries 

 small, round, uneven in size. Skin dark purple, thick. Flesh dark, firm, sweet, 

 and pleasant, with a slight Muscat flavour. 



HISTORY, ETC. Received from the collection of Messrs. Rivers. Not much 

 cultivated. 



CULTURAL NOTES. An excellent small Grape for cultivation in pots, and 

 will ripen against the open wall in favourable seasons. 



SEACLIFFE BLACK. Gros Guillaume. 



SNOW'S MUSCAT HAMBURGH. Muscat Hamburgh. 



SYRIAN (83). An oval white Vinous Grape. Season : late. 

 Merits: third-rate. 



SYN. Raisin de Jericho, Raisin de la Palestine, Raisin de la Terre 

 Promise. 



YINE. Growth very strong and robust; moderately fruitful. Leaves large, 

 downy, deeply lobed and toothed, dying off yellow. 



FRUIT. Bunches very lar^e, loose, from eighteen to twenty-four inches or 

 more in length, and having very broad loose shoulders ; setting freely. Berries 

 large or above medium size, ovate. Skin rather thick, greenish white. Flesh 

 firm, moderately juicy, sweet and pleasant when well ripened, but having no 

 particular flavour. 



HISTORY, ETC. A very old Grape, supposed to be that alluded to in the old 

 Testament (Book of Numbers). It is to be found in many old gardens, but very 

 seldom planted now. Speedily, of Welbeck, is reported to have grown a bunch 

 of this variety which weighed over nineteen pounds, which was the largest bunch 

 on record until 1875, when it suffered a double eclipse in Scotland, as noticed in 

 our account of the Trebbiano Grape. 



