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THE MILLER'S BURGUNDY GRAPE. 



Miller's Burgundy. Hort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no, 26. 

 The Black Cluster, or Munier Grape. Miller's Diet. 

 Le Meunier. Chaptal, Traite sur le Vigne, vol. i.p. 169. 

 Vitis subhirsuta (acino nigro). Caspar Bauhin Pinax. 

 Vitis lanata. C. Steph. Pradium Rusticum. 

 Maurillon-Taconne. . . 



Fromente 



Resseau 



Farineux noir 



Savagnien noir 



Noirin 



of the French Vineyards. 



This is one of the most ancient varieties of the 

 Grape. The two quotations cited above from 

 Bauhin's Pinax, and Stephanus's Praedium Rus- 

 ticum, are taken from Chaptal ; we have not been 

 able to find them ourselves. 



The plant from which the drawing was taken 

 was presented to the Horticultural Society by the 

 late Sir Joseph Banks, who procured it from the 

 remains of an ancient vineyard at Torworth, famous 

 for its chestnuts, and the seat of Lord Ducie. It 

 was undoubtedly one of the sorts cultivated in that 

 ancient place. 



It is commonly grown in France as a wine- 

 grape ; and is almost the only black kind which 

 iS' likely to be worth trying in this country for 

 the same purpose. It has a very high flavour, 



