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FRUIT-GARDENING. 



by the middle or end of September. The berry, or Grape, is 

 generally globular, but often ovate, oval, oblong, or finger- 

 shaped ; the color green, red, yellow, amber, and black, or a 

 variegation of two or more of these colors. The skin is 

 smooth, the pulp and juice of a dulcet, poignant, elevated, 

 generous flavor. 



LIST SWEET-WATER MUSCADINE, RED HAMBURGH. 



The weight of a berry depends not only on its size, but on 



Field-Training on Trellises. 



the thickness of its skin and texture of the flesh, the lightest 

 being the thin-skinned and juicy sorts, as the Sweet- Water or 

 Muscadine ; and what are considered as large-berried of these 

 varieties, will weigh from five to seven pennyweights, and mea- 

 sure from one to two-thirds of an inch in girth. . A good-sized 



