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coarse, juicy, sweet, and unless the fruit is highly ripened in heat it is 

 harshly and not agreeably flavoured. 



This is a very handsome grape, but it requires a considerable amount 

 of heat to ripen it, and it hangs late. It is aptly called the Orange 

 Grape by the Germans. 



A native of the East, Grosse Kolner colours very slowly and 

 gradually, and requires a temperature equal to that necessary to ripen 

 Muscat of Alexandria, and then it is delicious, especially if allowed to 

 hang till it begins to shrivel. 



Tt was first introduced to this country by the late Mr. "Rivers, of Sawbridgeworth, 

 from M. Vibert, of Angers ; but, finding it did not ripen with the same treatment 

 as Black Hamburgh, he discarded it. It was introduced a second time by the late 

 Mr. Standish, of Ascot, from M. Andre Leroy, of Angers, and through him its 

 popularity was established ; but it is mainly through the successful cultivation of 

 it by Mr. W. Thomson, of the Tweed Vineries, that its reputation is so widely 

 extended. 



The first trace I find of it in Western Europe is in De Bavay's Catalogue of 1852, 

 where it is called Gros Colman ; then I find it in that of Jacquemet-Bonnefont 

 of Annonay, for 1855, under the name of Gros Colmar, and both of these are 

 corruptions of Grosse Kolner. 



Grove-End Sweetwater. See Early White Malvasia. 

 Gutedel. See Royal Muscadine. 

 Hammelshoden. See Black Hamburgh. 

 Hampton Court. See Black Hamburgh. 

 Horsforth Seedling. See Morocco. 

 Hudler. See Black Hamburgh. 

 Huttler. See Black Hamburgh. 



INGRAM'S HARDY PROLIFIC MUSCAT. Bunches, long and 

 tapering, not shouldered, from nine inches to a foot in length. Berries,, 

 medium sized, perfectly oval, and well set. Skin, quite black, covered 

 with blue bloom. Flesh, moderately firm, juicy, sugary, with a 

 sprightly and rich flavour, having a faint trace of Muscat aroma. 



This is an excellent grape, and remarkably prolific. The wood is 

 very short-jointed, and the vine, which succeeds well in a cool green- 

 house, is very subject to mildew. 



It was raised by the late Mr. Thomas Ingram, garderer to Her Majesty at Frog- 

 more, and received a first-class certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 

 1861. 



ISABELLA. Bunches, large. Berries, large and oval. Skin, thin, 

 of a dark purple colour, almost black, and covered with bloom. Flesh, 

 tender, juicy, sweet, and vinous, with a musky flavour. 



This is a variety of Vitis Labrusca, a native American grape, culti- 

 vated in the open air in the United States, both for the dessert and for 

 wine ; but it is not of much account in England. 



