GRAPE VINES. 



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to be good. Such a number of trees of Lady Downe's should be 

 grown as will be equal to the demand for late grapes. 



One more late grape is good, West's St. Peter's, which yields fruit 

 superior in quality to Lady Downe's seedlings in some years, but 

 it is uncertain. 



Barbarossa is another late grape, having enormous bunches. I 

 have never grown it, and those which I have tasted have been 

 poor in flavour : the vine is also a bad bearer. 



A new grape of great beauty of form and large size has been 





FIG. 363. Standish's Citronelle. 



FIG. 365. Lady Downe. 



FIG. 364. Buckland's Sweetwater. 



raised by Mr. Paul, which he calls the Waltham Seedling (fig. 366), 

 and which appears robust in habit. It is too new a variety to speak 

 with any great confidence of its merits, but it has much to commend 

 it to our attention. 



The Raisin de Calabre and Golden Hamburgh we grow, but intend 

 to discard ; and the Muscat St. Laurent we used to grow, but do 

 not now. It was a good grape, but not to be compared with Standish's 

 Citronelle. 



The French have the highest opinion of the Chasselas of Fontaine- 

 blcau. It is a white grape with thin skin, but probably a great part 



