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espaliers. Its cultivation is not yet extended in the envi- 

 rons of Pans, but it merits to be cultivated for the table. 



27. GROS MAROC. 



The bunches are of good size, sometimes very large ; the 

 berries are large, oval, of a dark purple or violet color, and 

 covered with bloom ; the skin is thick ; the flesh juicy and 

 high-flavored. It ripens in open culture near Boston, but 

 only in favorable seasons and situations. 



28. LANGFORD'S INCOMPARABLE. Lindley. 

 The bunches are of good size, compactly-formed, and 



shouldered ; the berries are of moderate size ; the smallest 

 are round, the largest oval, of a dark purple color, covered 

 with blue bloom. The flesh is tender, juicy, saccharine, 

 and resembles the Miller's Burgundy. Mr. Lindley states 

 that a single vine, growing at Mr. Langford's, produced 

 two hundred and twenty-five pounds in a single year ; he 

 esteems it the best and most hardy out-of-door grape 

 known in that country. 



29. *SEEDLING OF BLOOM RAISIN. Thompson. 

 A new and superior variety, produced for exhibition from 



the garden of the London Hort. Soc. in 1837. Bunches as 

 large as the Black Hamburg, but more loose; berries black- 

 er, and of higher flavor. It ripened by the side of the Black 

 Hamburg near a month earlier ; hence it will be duly ap- 

 preciated by those who cultivate early fruits. One of the 

 most deserving fruits which appeared. Thus was it de- 

 scribed by Mr. Thompson. 

 SO. *WILMOT'S NEW BLACK HAMBURG. 



NEW DUTCH BLACK HAMBURG. 



A new and capital variety, extensively cultivated by Mr. 

 Wilrnot at Isleworth. The bunches are large ; the berries 

 larger than those of the Black Hamburg, and in appear- 

 ance very remarkable, resembling bodies rendered globular 

 by the blows of a hammer. A very large and beautiful 

 fruit, of a dark blue-black color, and covered with fine 

 azure bloom ; delicious, excellent, and very productive. 



RED, OR REDDISH PURPLE GRAPES. 



31. POONAH. Hort. Trans. Vol. iv. p. 516. 



The bunches are large, well-shouldered, tapering to a 

 point ; the berries are nearly oval ; pale red in the shade, 



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