150 GRAPE3. 



the large ones are generally without stones. Skin rather 

 thick, and the flesh firm and hard. Juice not plentiful, but 

 of a sweet, highly musky, and most delicious flavour. 



This may be justly considered as one of the very best 

 grapes ever introduced into this country. It requires a, 

 higher degree of temperature to ripen than many others, and 

 generally succeeds best in the pine stove. It may, never- 

 theless, be ripened very well in a lower temperature ; but 

 then it is necessary it should be forced early in the spring. 



The Toiieiiham Park JMuscat, which was said to be the 

 produce of a seed oftheMuscat of Alexandria, sown in 1S19, 

 turns out to be nothing more than this. It has been proved 

 to be so over and over again, by the best practical gardeners, 

 who have grown them both. The size of its berries has 

 been urged as constituting its difference ; but berries of the 

 Old Muscat have been grown, near London, which measured 

 four inches in circumference the long way, and three inches 

 and a half the short one, when the largest produced by Mr. 

 Burn, of the Tottenham Park Muscat, which were compa- 

 red with them, did not equal that size. 



I have several times seen the orignal vine at Tottenham 

 Park, where it has a small house to itself, which, under Mr. 

 Burn's excellent management, certainly produces fruit of 

 the very highest character ; and I have always observed 

 that there were other bunches, besides the first, which would 

 form two other crops, and ripen in succession. The old 

 Muscat, however, will do the same, when subjected to simi- 

 lar treatment. 



60. White Muscat from Lunel. Sjjeechly, 49. 



Berries large, oval, and when perfectly ripe of a fine am- 

 ber colour, sometimes clouded with russet, especially on the 

 side next the sun ; they form pretty large bunches. The 

 skin is thin, and the flesh delicate, replete with a vinous 

 juice. 



It requires a hothouse or a vinery. 



Mr. Speechly says it is a plentiful bearer, and may be 

 justly esteemed a valuable sort. 



61. White Sweetwater. LanghAj, p. 113. t, 50. 

 Speechhj, No. 16. 



Parel Druyf, of the Dutch Gardens. 



Berries large, round, of a vhite colour, and when highly 

 ripened, especially when exposed to the sun, they are sha- 

 dod with a light russet. They grew close on the bunches, 



