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grape. There is one at Harewood House, Leeds, planted by Mr. Chapman in 1783, 

 filling a house 66 feet long by 18 feet wide, and producing 300 bunches annually. 

 Canon Hall Muscat is the handsomest Muscat grape and has the largest berries, some- 

 times measuring singly 4 inches in circumference. Trebbiano has, however, produced 

 enormous bunches of light-coloured grapes ; one was grown by Mr. Curror, of Eskbank, 

 Edinburgh, and exhibited in 1875. It weighed 26 pounds 4 ounces ; this is the heaviest 



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Fig. 72. BTJNCH OP GROS GUILLAUME GUAPES. Weight: 23 pounds 5 ounces. 

 (Reduced from The Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



bunch of grapes which has been weighed in public. Mr. Dickson, of Arkleton, exhibited 

 a bunch of White Nice grapes at Edinburgh, in 1875, weighing 25 pounds 15 ounces, 

 the produce of a vine which had only been planted four years. This huge bunch measured 

 across its ponderous shoulders 2 feet 3 inches; the length of the bunch was 2 feet 

 3 inches, and its circumference, following the contour of the shoulders to the body 



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