256 NEW AMERICAN ORCRARDIST. 



flavor if well ripened.. An excellent bearer ; and the bunches, 

 when ripe, will remain many weeks longer than any other 

 variety. This grape would not probably ripen in the open 

 air in the climate of New England. Mr. Speechly has 

 stated that he raised at Welbeck a bunch of this variety 

 measuring nineteen and a half inches in breadth, twenty- 

 one and three fourths inches in depth, in circumference 

 four and a half feet, and weighing nineteen and a half 

 pounds. This is supposed to be the kind mentioned, 

 Numbers xin. 23. 



41. TOKAY. Duh. 



WHITE MORILLON. Speechly's Syn. GRIZZLV MUSCAT. 

 The bunches are of moderate size, compactly formed ; 

 the berries, inclining to oval, are rather small, faintly tinged 

 with gray or red ; saccharine and pleasant. This grape 

 ripens in good seasons near Boston in open culture ; and 

 is the variety of which the celebrated Tokay wine is made. 



42. ,VERDAL. Mr. Neill. Bon Jard. 

 VERDELHO. Ib. Bon Jard. p. 367. 



The vine grows vigorously ; it is remarkably productive ; 

 the bunches are variable in size, but beautiful ; the ber- 

 ries are oval, of a fine amber color, of a very rich, saccha- 

 rine taste and good flavor. Much cultivated in Languedoc, 

 and there called Verdal. It was brought from thence to 

 Paris, where it is highly esteemed as .the best and sweetest 

 of all dessert grapes; but it there requires a warm sum- 

 mer and the best exposition to bring k to maturity, when 

 the bunches become beautiful, the berries large, each con- 

 taining two seeds. This is the Verdellio grape, of Ma- 

 deira, of which Madeira wine is principally made. 



43. WHITE HAMBURG. Speechly. Lindley. 

 WHITE PORTUGAL, WHITE LISBON, Hart. Soc. Cat. 

 WHITE RAISIN, RAISIN MUSCAT. 



The bunches are large and loosely-formed ; the berries 

 large, of an oval form and greenish white color; the skin 

 is thick, the pulp hard, and the juice sweet, slightly mixed 

 with acid. Mr. Lindley informs us, that this grape is by 

 many much" admired, that it keeps long, and is the same 

 that is annually imported into that country from Portugal, 

 to the value of ,10,000 in the winter season, and sold in 

 the shops for Portugal grapes. We may perhaps ascribe 

 its long keeping to its hard pulp and thick skin, and would 

 suggest that it might prove a profitable article of cultivation 

 and export from the Southern States. 



