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Gfiemieri). This famous French vine is now well known 

 to our vinegrowers, both in Malta and Gozo, especially 

 since it has been so successfully cultivated on a fairly 

 large scale at the rGHemieri (Gomerino) vineyards, but 

 its introduction in Malta dates back to about 1890 or 

 earlier. The vine is very vigorous, and is a fast grower, 

 preferring clayey soils or reddish soils moderately moist. 

 Requires half-long pruning. It is very productive, es- 

 pecially on moist soils where however the grapes become 

 too much charged with astringency. The leaves are 

 middling, roundish, deep green, imperfectly 3 to 5 lobed, 

 hairy and greyish white on the lower surface, with a long 

 green leaf-stalk tinted red, and grooved on the upper sur- 

 face. The bunches are rather small or middling, cylin- 

 drical or conical, compact. The berries are middling 

 or small, round or roundish, deep violet black, thickly 

 covered with bloom, and are firmly adherent to the stalk. 

 The rind is thin, highly coloured. The pulp is soft and 

 juicy, very sugary, with a peculiar flavour. This is an 

 excellent vine for the production of table wine of fine 

 colour and good keeping quality, and is grown over 

 large districts in France (Champagne) lor the production 

 of Burgundy, etc. 



106. SALAMANNA. (It. Salamanna, Moscatelhne, 

 Moscato d* Alessandria, M. di Spagna, Zibibbo, Fr. = 

 Panse masque 1 , Sp.Moscadel Gordon Blanco, E. = Mus- 

 cat of Alexandria, etc). This vine has existed for a 

 long time in the vineyards at Rabato, Dingli and Imtari- 

 leb, but has been introduced again lately by Count Dr. 

 A. Caruana Gatto. The vine is very vigorous and 

 spreading, with long stout canes, and is best grown on a 

 pergola or a wall, requiring rather long pruning. The 

 leaves are broad, thin, tough, with 3 to 5 lobes very 

 acutely toothed, smooth on both surfaces, with a long 

 and thick leaf-stalk often shaded reddish. The bunch is 

 large, winged or ramified, long, more or less loose. The 



