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violet black, heavily covered with bloom. The flesh is 

 soft, juicy, fairly sweet and faintly aromatic. It is a 

 wine grape of middling quality. 



114. TUILA SEUDA TAR-RDUM or GHAGEB TAR- 

 RDUM This marvellous vine originated a few years ago 

 at C. Dingli in a lavine not far from tke sea. It is very 

 vigorous and productive, requiring half-long or long 

 pruning. The leaves are of a lively green, middling, 

 roundish, hardly lobed, with the middle lobe broad, short 

 and pointed ; and the teeth are broad and mucronate. 

 The leaves are smooth on both surfaces, or wiih a few 

 hairs along the nerves. The leaf-stalk is thin and red- 

 dish, shorter than the blade, and the nerves originating 

 from it are reddish up to their first ramification. The 

 bunches are large or very large, winged or doubly 

 winged, irregular in shape or obtuse, rather loose, and of 

 most beautiful appearance. The berries are very large, 

 being the largest in size so far known in these Islands, 

 generally of the size of a large olive ; their shape is an 

 elongated oval, narrower at the stalk, and roundish at 

 the other end. The stalk of the bunch is long and red- 

 dish green. The colour of the berry is purplish black or 

 violet black, heavily covered with a bluish bloom. The 

 rind is resistant but not thick : the pulp is greenish, 

 fleshy and rather firm, fairly sweet and of a simple 

 flavour. The juice is abundant and colourless. The 

 seeds, often reduced to one, are small and long, with a 

 pointed chalaza. A few berries remain undersized and 

 seedless, but mature with the rest. This is a black table 

 grape of surpassing beauty. 



115. ZAKK IN-NAGHGA (MALTA) or MARSUSA TAN- 

 NEBBIET. The vine is fairly vigorous and is well produc- 

 tive. Should be pruned long and requires sunny and dry 

 situations to fruit well. It is in all probability a local 

 seedling and has been long known in our vineyards at 

 Uardia, Gneina, Chain Tuffieha and Fiddien, though 



