134 GRIPES. 



vided, broadly serrated, becoming variegated in the autumn 

 with pale red and dark purple. 



The Black Prince is of easy culture, requiring only the 

 protection of the greenhouse or common vinery ; and in fa- 

 vourable seasons it will, on a warm dry soil, ripen its fruit 

 on a south wall. 



Mr. Hooker's drawing was made from a bunch produced 

 at Highgate in 1813. 



13. BLACK RAISIN. Speechly, No. 39. 

 Raisin Grape. Miller, No. 18. 



Bunches large and long; the largest have good-sized 

 shoulders. Berries large and oval. Skin thick, of a black 

 colour. Flesh hard and firm. Juice very high flavoured. 

 Wood long-jointed. Buds somewhat pointed. Leaves 

 large, very much serrated, with long red footstalks. 



It is a tall grape, and requires a hothouse. 



Mr. Oldacre, who has given a very good account of it in 

 the Gard. J\fag. 9 says, if the bunches are cut in October 

 with long footstalks to them, and hung in the kitchen so as 

 not to touch each other, they will be so ripened by the 

 warmth of the room by Christmas as to eat extremely well. 



14. BLACK SWEETWATER. Speedily, No. 17. 

 Bunches small, close, and short. Berries small, round. 



Skin thin, of a black colour. Juice very sweet, with but 

 little perfume. 



This ripens on a common wall, and is but seldom intro- 

 duced under glass. 



15. CLARET GRAPE. Speechly, No. 31. 

 Blood Grape. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 43. 



Bunches small. Berries very closely set, small, black, 

 of a somewhat oval figure. The Juice is of a blood red 

 colour, and of a harsh taste, unless the berries are highly 

 matured. The leaves change to a russet red early in the 

 summer, and die of a deep blood colour in the autumn. 



It ripens pretty well on a south wall. 



The branches of this, like those of the White Sweetwater, 

 are very short-jointed. It is very tender when in blossom : 

 on that account the bunches are seldom perfectly formed, 

 and always contain numerous small-sized berries among the 

 larger ones. 



16. EARLY BLACK JULY. Langley, t. 47. f. 3. Hort. 

 Soc. Cat. No. 17. 



Madeleine. Ib. 

 Madeleine noire. Ib. 

 Maurillon hatif. /6. 



