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house, in a very poor and cold clay soil. Here the 

 vine made slow progress, but continued to increase 

 in size until the third or fourth year, when it produced 

 a few clusters of small white grapes. These appeared 

 to possess so much merit, and were so much better 

 than had been expected, that pains were then taken 

 to feed and nourish it, and prune it into shape, and it 

 soon well repaid all the labor bestowed upon it. It 

 grew vigorously, making shoots ten or fifteen feet 

 long, and bore abundant crops of the most delicious 

 grapes, until at the present time it has reached the 

 top of the house, and covers a trellis ten feet wide 

 and twenty-five feet high, loaded with fruit. 



" Bunches medium size, about six inches long, very 

 compact, without shoulders; berries medium size, 

 obovate ; about three quarters of an inch in diame- 

 ter; skin thin, greenish white, becoming of a pale 

 amber color at full maturity, covered with a thin white 

 bloom ; flesh very juicy, soft and melting, and free 

 from pulp ; flavor rich, sugary, vinous, and brisk, 

 with a peculiarly musky and luscious aroma, distinct 

 from any other grape ; seeds small, two to four in 

 each berry ; leaves scarcely of a medium size, about 

 seven inches long and seven in width, very deeply 

 lobed and coarsely and sharply serrated ; upper sur- 

 face light green, slightly rough; under surface 

 covered with a thin, whitish down ; nerves promi- 



