212 GARDEN PLANTS. PART II. 



Vitis vinifera. 



GKAPE. 



Ungoor. 



The varieties of Grape found in different parts of India are 

 no doubt very numerous, and some, probably, as large in size and 

 as fine in flavour as are to be met with in any part of the world. 

 In my grapery at Ferozepore I had some four or five sorts (the 

 names unknown to me), all of exquisite flavour. Dr. Jameson, 

 speaking of the vines in the Saharunpore Botanical Gardens, 

 says, " The different varieties of Cashmere vines are very fine, 

 and well worthy of extensive cultivation, particularly the varieties 

 Kishmish, Monucka, Honsanee, Muska" 



The Aurungabad Grape is one of the most celebrated varie- 

 ties in India. It is a black fruit of large size, sweet, and of 

 livery consistency, much like the Portugal Grape sold in grocers' 

 shops in London. It is cultivated to great extent in the vineries 

 of Doulutabad, and is much in request in that part of the country, 

 being conveyed for sale to a considerable distance around, and 

 realising four times the price of the ordinary white Grapes 

 grown there. 



None of these grapes appear to have reached the district of 

 Calcutta, or, if so, have probably perished, from the climate 

 being unsuited to them. I myself brought to Chinsurah from 

 Ootacamund in the year 1859 four choice varieties of Euro- 

 pean vines ; but they made no growth whatever, and at the end 

 of two years were poor stunted plants of much about the same 

 size as when I first obtained them. 



Mr. L. Berkeley gives me the following as the names of the 

 Grape-vines he has growing in his garden at Lahore, imported 

 by himself from England : 1, Black Frontignan ; 2, Black Ham- 

 burg ; 3. Golden ; 4, Muscat ; 5, Constantia ; and 6, a dwarf 

 French kind (name lost), bearing a very delicate and sweet- 

 flavoured fruit, which lasts for months without decay. He tells 

 me, moreover, they have in the Punjab the Bedana, or stoneless 

 Grape, said to be indigenous there. 



From Dr. Henderson I learn that he has introduced at Lahore 

 as many as sixteen kinds of Grape-vines from Europe. 



