408 Foreign Grapes. 



CLASS III. WhiU^grten, or yellow. 



Charlesworth Tokay. Bunches long, compa6l ; berries large, oval, 

 white ; skin thick, with a rich, excellent, Muscat flavor. Hangs 

 long, and is adapted to a forcing or late house. English. 



Ciotat. (Parsley-leaved.) Bunches medium, rather loose ; berries 

 round ; skin thin, white ; pleasant, but not rich. Leaves deeply 

 divided ; grows in open air, but much better under glass. 



Early White Malvasia. (Grove End Sweetwater, Early Chasselas, 

 White Mellier.) Bunches medium, shouldered ; berries small, 

 yellowish white ; skin thin ; sweet, juicy, agreeable. Early, good 

 bearer, ripens in open air. 



Golden Hamburgh. Bunches large, shouldered ; berries large, oval, 

 pale yellow ; skin thin ; flesh tender, rich, vinous, showy. Ripens 

 with Black Hamburgh. A fine new white grape. 



Knighfs Variegated Chasselas. Bunches rather long, not shoul- 

 dered, loose ; berries small, round ; skin thin, white, sometimes 

 purplish in the sun, with a sweet, pleasant flavor. 



Musk Chasselas. Bunches medium, loose ; berries medium, round, 

 yellowish white ; juicy, very rich, musky. Liable to crack. 



PITMASTON WHITE CLUSTER. Bunches small, compact, shoul- 

 dered ; berries large, round, amber colored, sometimes with a 

 little faint russet when fully ripe ; skin thin, flesh tender, juicy, 

 rich, of fine flavor. Open air, cold or forcing house. A seedling 

 from Black Cluster. Very early and good. 



ROYAL MUSCADINE. (Chasselas, White Chasselas, Early White 

 Teneriffe, Chasselas de Fontainebleau, White Muscadine of some.) 

 Bunches large, long, sometimes shouldered ; berries rather large, 

 round, greenish, becoming a golden amber ; skin thin, flesh ten- 

 der, rich, delicious. Does not hang well cracks some seasons. 

 Distinguished from Sweetwater by its larger berries and stronger 

 growth of shoots. 



Chasselas de Bar Sur Aube much resembles the Royal Muscadine, 

 but is earlier, and rather superior in flavor; the bunches, under 

 good cultivation, are often ten or twelve inches long, usually not 

 shouldered ; very productive. For forcing or cold house. Gold- 

 en Chasselas is earlier the bunch sets badly. 



Scotch White Cluster. Bunches medium, compact ; berries me- 

 dium, roundish oval, white ; flesh tender, juicy, sweet, excellent. 



Syrian. Bunches enormously large have weighed 19 Ibs., being 

 22 inches long and 19 broad irregular, shouldered; berries 

 large, oval, tawny yellow ; skin thick, flesh firm, solid, moderately 



