120 THE CULTUKE OF THE GRAPE. 



twenty sjnonymes. A much esteemed wine grape on the 

 river Maine. 



H Rissliny White, — Ripens in the open air ; the berries are 

 small, and the flavor good. This is much esteemed as a wine 

 grape near the Rhine ; it has twenty-two synonymes. 



H Black Tripoli. — Has round berries, not unlike the Black 

 Hamburgh. 



H Black Prolific. — Has round berries, with large bunches. 

 It is good, but does not keep well, and ripens unequally. 



H Palestine Grrape. — The bunches of this variety are enor- 

 mous, and the berries are oval, large, and wliite ; the shoul- 

 ders, or stems, are very long, and the berries are in clusters, 

 at long intervals. 



Suahi. 



Liver den. 



Fromental. 



Florentine. 



Falanchina. 



^i August Muscat. — A seedling raised by M. Vibert, of 

 Angers, in France, from the grape called there the Frankan- 

 tal, (^supposed to be ivhat we call the Black Hamhurgh, as it 

 usually proves so, when ordered from France y) it is a very 

 weak growing vine ; the fruit is black, of Muscat flavor, and 

 is said to mature its fruit earlier than any other grape ; a 

 vine in my grapery has fruited the past summer, and the fruit 

 was small and poor. It is undoubtedly the earliest grape 

 grown, and will ripen its fruit, Avhen highly forced, in three 

 months. 



3Ialvasia, Early White. — This is very like the Pitmaston. 



H Crolden Chasselas. — Has a very large round berry, with 

 a large bunch, and is very handsome ; sets poorly and cracks ; 

 ripens early, before the other Chasselas kinds. This grape 

 varies more than any other sort in its ripening. Vines, raised 

 from the same plant, grown by myself, and never out of my 

 premises, and equally well situated in a cold grapery, difler 

 twenty days in the time of ripening their fruit this season of 

 1848. 



