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II. GRIOTTES. 



Branches, either upright, spreading, or more or less long, slender, 

 and drooping. Leaves, flat, dark green, glabrous underneath, and 

 borne stiffly on the leaf stalks ; largo and broad in , and small and 

 narrow in . Flowers in pedunculate umbels, cup-shaped, with firm, 

 stiff, and crumpled orbicular petals. Fruit, round or oblate, some- 

 times, as in the Morello, inclining to heart-shaped. Juice, sub-acid 

 or acid. 



Branches upright, occasionally spreading. Leaves large and broad. 

 * Flesh dark; juice coloured. BLACK DUKES. 



Archduke 

 Buttner's October 

 Duchesse de Palluau 

 Empress Eugenie 

 Jeffrey's Duke 



May Duke 

 Nouvelle Royal< 

 Royal Duke 

 De Soissons 



** Flesh pale; juice uncoloured. RED DUKES. 



Abesse d'Oignies 



Belle de Choisy 



Belle Magnifique 



Carnation 



Coe's Late Carnation 



Dechenaut 



Great Cornelian 

 Late Duke 

 Planchoury 

 Reine Hortense 

 Tomato 

 Transparent 



Branches long, slender, and drooping. Leaves small and narrow. 

 * Flesh dark ; juice coloured. BLACK MORELLOS. 



Double Natte 

 Early May 

 Griotte de Chaux 

 Griotte Imperials 

 Griotte de Kleparow 



Morello 



Morello de Charmeux 



Ostheim 



Ratafia 



Shannon Morello 



** Flesh pale; juice uncoloured. RED MORELLOS or KENTISH. 



All Saints 



Cluster 



Flemish 



Gros Gobet 



Kentish 



Paramdam 



A Bouquet. See Cluster. 



ABESSE D'OIGNIES. Fruit, large and round, like a large Late 

 Duke, and somewhat inclined to oblate. Skin, bright cornelian red, 

 with sometimes a russety patch or amber- coloured mottle about the 

 apex. Stalk, green, short, and very stout, little more than an inch 

 long. Flesh, half tender, with a briskly acid flavour. Stone, large 

 and coarse. 



