( 43 ) 



9. Black Sweet Water. This is a roundish fruit, growing-, 

 in small compact bunches, is very sweet, and ripens in Sep- 

 tember. 



*6. Meunier, or Miller's Burgundy. This is one of the 

 earliest grapes; the berries are black, of moderate size, ra- 

 ther oval, and pretty closely set on the bunches, which are 

 short. Its leaves, particularly when young, are covered 

 with a white down, which easily distinguishes it from others, 

 and whence it derives its title. The juice is pleasant and 

 vinous; it is an excellent wine grape, and produces well ; is 

 very hardy, a sure grape for a crop, and is one of those that 

 xvill succeed fartherest north. It enters largely into culture 

 in the vineyards of France, and is well calculated to succeed, 

 for the same purpose in this country. 



89. White Morillon. The berries are nearly round, and 

 form a bunch of good size ; the fruit in flavour resembles 

 the Black Moriilon, but is rather more sweet ; it is a plea- 

 sant early table fruit, and ripens at the end of August or be- 

 ginning of September. 



80. Strified Alept 10 - This is a variety of the Morillon ; 

 the berries are on some bunches black, on others white, but 

 very frequently black, white, and striped on the same bunch ; 

 the fruit is similar to the Morillon Noir in quality, being 

 pleasant, and ripening early. It is sometimes called Raisin 

 c!e Suisse, and by others Morillon Panach. I consider this, 

 grape would mature its fruit at Boston, and for some dis- 

 tance to the north of it ; ripens. at the end of August or be- 

 ginning of September. 



7. jiu-vernat r or Pineau JVofr.- This is a wine grape, 

 much cultivated in Burgundy ; the berry is not large, but 

 closely set on the bunch, and of agreeable flavour ; the 

 bunches are but of moderate size. It is often called Pineau 

 Noir, but is quite distinct from the following; ripens the be- 

 ginning of September. 



Pineau Franc. A fruit of minor size and oblong, with 

 small bunches of a form somewhat conical, and the berries 

 closely set on the bunch ; it is not the most productive, but 

 its fruit is of excellent flavour, and produces the most deli- 

 cate wines of Burgundy The finest vineyards of that part 

 of France are most composed of the varieties of the Pineau 

 and of the Morillon. They all ripen about the same period, 

 and in this vicinity are at maturity the beginning of Sep- 

 tember. 



70. Pineau Gris, or Grey Burgundy. This grape, also 

 called Auvernat Gris, is used in connexion yiih the*Auver 



