GRAPE 



GRAPTOPHYLLUM 



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quality is remarlcable, and it can be made as good as the 

 best. It is the variety with which the novice begins. 

 Many houses consist entirely of Black Hamburgs, and 

 many that do not would give far better satisfaction if 

 they did, 



Muscat of Alexandria is the best of the white varie- 

 ties for general cultivation. It requires a higher tem- 

 perature and longer season than the Black Hamburg 

 to come to perfection, and will keep longer after cutting 

 than that kind. When well grown and ripened it may 

 be taken as a standard of quality. See Fig. 980. 



Muscat Hamburg is a black Grape, probably a cross 

 between the two above named varieties, and presenting 

 marked characteristics of each. It has beautiful taper- 

 ing clusters of fine quality. 



Barbarossa is a good variety for those ambitious to 

 grow large clusters, and when well grown is of fine • 

 quality. It is a late black Grape, requiring a long season 

 to ripen well, but repays for the trouble by keeping 

 thereafter for a long time. Clusters frequently grow to 

 8 or 10 pounds in weight, measuring about 24 inches 

 each way, and they have been grown to more than 

 double this weight. 



Other large-growing varieties are the White Nice 

 and Syrian, the latter of which is said to be the 

 kind that the spies found in the land of promise. Clus- 

 ters of 20 to 30 pounds weight are common to these two 

 coarse-growing kinds, but their quality is so poor that 

 they are now rarely grown. 



Grizzly Frontignan is a beautifully mottled pink Grape 

 — quite a deep pink sometimes — and has long, slender 

 clusters. In quality and flavor it is unsurpassed by any 

 other Grape, and it ripens rather early. 



Royal Muscadine is an early white Grape of fair quality 

 and good habit; frequent in English houses. 



Gros Colman, a large black Grape of fine quality and 

 a late keeper, is now grown largely for commercial pur- 

 poses in England and sent to this side to supply our 

 wants in this line in spring. The berries frequently 

 measure 4H inches around, and it therefore requires 

 early and severe thinning. 



Alicante is a black Grape of very distinct character, 

 seeming to depart somewhat from the vinifera type, 

 very juicy, and of fair quality. It has a very thick skin, 

 and is about the best for long keeping. 



Lady Downs is another late black Grape of good 

 quality, but not adapted to all localities. Rose Chas- 

 selas, a small red Grape, is the earliest and very beauti- 

 ful. Trentham Black, the earliest black Grape, has small 

 clusters, but large, soft berries quite like Alicante. 



Foster Seedling is a beautiful midseason, amber- 

 colored Grape, with large clusters and berriee some- 

 times liable to crack. Madresfield Court Muscat is a 



982. Floret of a Grass (rye). Much enlarged. 

 cc, floral glume and palet ; a, stigmas ; bbb, stamens. 



midseason Grape — fine in quality, but also inclined to 

 crack. This trouble can often be controlled by twisting 

 or slitting the stems of the clusters, thereby checking 

 the flow of sap. 



Many other popular varieties are described in various 

 works devoted to Grape culture. 



For other notes on Grapes under glass, see the article 

 on Forcing. £>_ ^^ Dunning. 



GRAPE-FRUIT, See Citrus Decnmava and Pomelo, 



GRAPE HYACINTH. Mnscari botryoides. 



GRAPE, SEASIDE. Coccoloha uvifera. 



GRAPTOPHVLLUM (Greek words referring to the 

 variegated foliage). Acanth&cew. An oriental genus of 

 about 5 species of tender shrubs, one of which is cult, 

 in a very few American conservatories for its variegated 

 foliage, and is said to be very popular in India and 

 through the tropics. No two Ivs. are marked exactly 

 alike, but the yellow color is near the midrib rather than 

 at the margins. The genus is close to Thyrsacanthus, but 

 in Thyrsacanthus the fls. are not so distinctly 2-lippeo. 

 Lvs. opposite, entire (in one species spiny-dentate), 

 of ten colored : fls. reddish purple, wide gaping, clustered 

 either in a terminal thyrse or in the axils; corolla tube 

 inflated above; upper lip with 2 short recurved lobes; 

 lower lip .'^cut; stamens 2. For culture, see Jusficia. 



hort^nse, Nees {G. pictum, Griff. Jnsticia picta^ 

 Linn.). Caricature Plant. Height finally G-8 ft. : lvs. 



