NOMENCLATURE OF UKAPES. 



in different vineyards by six to ten names. This confusion in 

 the nomenclature they regulated as far as their experience per- 

 mitted, by adopting the title of most general application, and 

 arranging' the other names as synonymes. 



In my own observations I have frequently found great diffi- 

 culty in attaining to exactitude in the synonymy, and in some 

 cases, have not yet been able to arrive at satisfactory conclu- 

 sions. My collection of vines, comprising above four hundred 

 and fifty varieties, of which I will speak more in detail in the 

 sequel of this work, under the head of American Vineyards, 

 promises me great aid in the attainment of so desirable an 

 object, and each year will shed new light on the various points 

 of interest, which must be developed in the culture of such an 

 assemblage, from every vine country. 



I now propose giving descriptions of as great a number of 

 varieties of the grape, as can be consistently done at the pre- 

 sent period. These descriptions have been revised as far as 

 possible, with scrupulous attention, others, where my own 

 observations did not suffice, have been extracted from the most 

 noted authors of the day ; and although I neither claim for 

 them, nor for myself, the possession of infallibility, it can be 

 truly said, that every point has been carefully viewed, with 

 the intent of increasing the general stock of information, on a 

 subject of such great interest to the prospects of our country. 



In describing the varieties of the grape, I will commence 

 with the foreign ones, which are all of the one species, Vitis 

 vinifera. I will then continue by describing the different 

 varieties, which are natives of our own country, and which are 

 of several distinct species. 



The foreign grapes may be properly divided into and placed 

 under distinct heads or groups, as far as possible, such as the 

 Chasselas, Muscat, and other table grapes ; and those kinds 

 which are generally considered as wine grapes, and are only 

 occasionally and partially used a& table fruit. 



