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of cultivation. It has the peculiarity of having many seeds. One vine 

 should be grown of the Chasselas Musque (fig. 361), which when fine 

 is one of the finest of all grapes ; sometimes, however, it splits and 

 rots, but sometimes we have had every berry perfect. There is no 

 known method of preventing this mischief, otherwise the grape would 

 be. extensively grown. One vine may be grown of the Frontignan 

 (fig. 362), which, although a small grape and consequently unpleasing 

 to most grape growers, is a good grape when not over-cropped ; but 



FIG. 360. Ingram's Prolific Muscat. 



F/G. 362. White trontigrian. 



FIG. 361. Chasselas 

 Musque. 



a grape called Standish's Citronelle (fig. 363) has been lately intro- 

 duced, of such surpassing excellence that it will doubtless take its 

 place. We have had it before the fruit committee of the Horticultural 

 Society, where it received the highest commendation. One vine may 

 be grown of Buckland's Sweetwater (fig. 364), which produces large 

 bunches with enormous berries, with a thin, watery juice very refresh- 

 ing on a hot day of September. One vine may be grown of Snow's 

 Muscat Hamburgh. The berries of this are apt to shrink, but the 

 fruit when in good order is delicious. With regard to late grapes, there 

 is nothing to compare with Lady Downe's Seedling (fig. 365). The 

 vine breaks later than any other, and when the grape is ripe it 

 keeps later than any other. The figure is from a bunch which 

 was ripe at the end of August, and which was preserved in a bottle 

 of water till the first week of June, when the berries were still found 



