GRAPES. CLASS IV. 255 



^flavor if well ripened. An excel lent bearer ; and the bunches, 

 when ripe, will remain many weeks longer than any other 

 variety. This grape would not probably ripen in the open 

 air in the climate of New England. Mr. Speechly has 

 stated that he raised at Welbeck a bunch of this variety 

 measuring nineteen and a half inches in breadth, twenty- 

 one and three fourths inches in depth, in circumference 

 .four and a -half feet, and weighing nineteen and a half 

 t pounds. This is supposed to be the kind mentioned, 

 Numbers xui. 23. 



41. TOKAY. Duk. 



WHITE MORILLON. Speeckly's Syn. GRIZZLY MUSCAT. 

 The bunches are of moderate size, compactly formed , 

 the berries, inclining to oval, are rather small, faintly tinged 

 with gray or red ; saccharine and pleasant. This grape 

 5-ipens in good seasons near Boston in open culture, and 

 is the variety of which the celebrated Tokay wine is made. 



43. WHITE HAMBURG. Speechly. Lindley. 

 WHITE PORTUGAL, WHITE LISBON, Hert. Soc. Cat. 

 WHITE RAISIN, RAISIN MUSCAT. 



The bunches are large and loosely-formed ; the berries 

 'large, of an oval form and greenish white color; the skin 

 is thick, the pulp hard, and the juice sweet, slightly mixed 

 with acid. Mr. Lindley informs us that this grape is by 

 many much admired, that it keeps long, and is the same 

 that is annually imported into that country from Portugal, 

 to the value of ^10,000 in the winter season, and sold in 

 the shops for Portugal grapes. We may perhaps ascribe 

 its long keeping to its hard pulp and thick skin, and would 

 suggest that it might prove a profitable article of cultivation 

 and export from the Southern States. 



44. WHITE ST. PETER'S. 



SAINT PIERRE. Bon Jard. p. 368. Moscow. 

 The bunches are large, very beautiful, and compactly 

 formed ; the berries are round, white, and excellent. A 

 Taluable new variety, and weH deserving trial with us. 



45. ALEPPO. Speedily. 

 RAISIN SUJSSE. 



The bunches are formed of berries of different colors ; 

 the berries are round, of medium size; some are black, 

 ome white, but mostly striped with black and white ; the 

 skin is thin, the flesh juicy, and of superior flavor ; the 

 Jeav.es are beautifully and variously striped in autumn with 



