512 [ THE VINE. 



wine grapes, and is also extensively cultivated through- 

 out Italy. 



13. CAGNORALI or CAGNOVALI. (Fr.= Morastel). 

 Is common in France and Sardegna, and has been 

 recently introduced in these Islands. Thrives well in 

 almost any soil, and is vigorous, with a dwarf vegetation 

 and short inter nodes, requiring short pruning. The 

 leaves are small, rugose and tough, irregularly five- 

 lobed, with very acute segments and a long slender 

 reddish leaf-stalk. The bunches are large, broadly 

 conical, winged and very compact. The berries are 

 round, black, well covered with bloom, not liable to rot. 

 The flesh is soft, sweet and juicy. It is a very good wine 

 grape, recommendable for dry soils and exposed situa- 

 tions, and is very productive, yielding a wine of medium 

 or inferior quality and therefore requiring the addition of 

 other sorts of grapes to improve it. 



14. CALABRISA BAJDA or SERKUSAN ABJAD, pro- 

 bably Calabrese bianco, of Sicily and Calabria. This 

 vine is now little grown but is still met with at Dingli 

 and Rabato, and is often mistaken for the local seedling 

 Insolja hadra tal Ibjar, the bunch and 'grape being very 

 similar, but the rind is not so tough and the juice has 

 not the same rich muscat flavour. The plant has a 

 spreading habit and is fairly productive, requiring long 

 pruning, but the grape is liable to rot off easily. The 

 leaves are broad, pentagonal, indistinctly lobed, light 

 green or yellowish green, smooth on both surfaces, or 

 slightly rugose, doubly toothed, with a short reddish 

 leaf-stalk and sometimes with reddish nerves. The 

 bunch is large, similar to that of Insoljia hadra tal Ibjar 

 but more compact, with berries of the same size, 

 shape, and colour, but not so richly flavoured and 

 much more liable to rot. This is a table grape of 

 middling quality, often confused with one or other sort 

 of Nuccellata. 



