.NOMENCLATURE OF GRAFE3. 1). 



CHASSELAS GRAPES. 



The grapes of this class, are among the most esteemed table 

 fruits of France, they are all of a round form, but vary in the 

 other characteristics. In regard to the white varieties, there 

 has been much difference of opinion, and I can truly say, I 

 have taken more pains to regulate the synonymae of the Chas- 

 selas grapes, than of all others combined, and with far less 

 satisfaction to myself; for the European publications contain 

 such a heterogeneous mass of contradictions, that no correct 

 decision could be formed from them. I have in this, therefore, 

 as in similar cases, based my conclusions on Duhammel, and 

 one or two more principal works of authority, however much 

 others might differ from them, and have thrown my own ex- 

 perience into the scale. 



WHITE, OR GOLDEN CHASSELAS. PR. CAT. No. 66. 



White chasselas. 



Golden chasselas. 



Chasselas, \ 



Chasselas dore, f n , 



Sar.sur.Aube, ? J 



Bar-sur-Aube blanc, j 



Chasselas blanc. 



Chasselas croquant, Haut-Rhin. 



Chasselas dur. 



Chasselas dor6 de Fontainbleau, Beaunier. 



D'Arbois, or D'Arboyce, > ~ fT , ,. . 



Royal Muscadine, I Of En g hsh autho ^- 



Vitis acinomedio, rotundo, cxalbojlavescente. DUH. 



This variety of the grape is considered the chasselas, par 

 excellence, of the French collections, and is more extensively 

 cultivated there than any other variety, which has caused it to 

 receive in different localities, a great diversity of names. The 

 leaves are of medium size, pretty deeply serrated, and bordered 

 with large, but not very acute indentures. The clusters of 

 fruit are generally large and long, and the most part of them 

 shouldered. 



