NOMENCLATURE OF GRAPES. 



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BLACK MUSCAT OF ALEXANDRIA. PR. CAT. No. 83. 



Red Muscat of Alexandria. 

 Red Muscat of Jerusalem ? 

 New muscat of Jerusalem, Forsyth. 



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This grape is described by Forsyth as resembling the white 

 except in its colour. It is not enumerated by Duhammel or 

 Chaptal under any title by which it can be readily recognised, 

 but I have doubtingly put down the Malaga-du-Lot of some 

 French authors and of the Luxembourg collection as a sy- 

 nonyme, and I doubt not all the English titles quoted apply to the 

 same fruit, although they are described as distinct. 



The bunches ripen in October, and it is therefore too late 

 a kind for this latitude, but will succeed south of the Poto- 

 mac. There is a variety of grape called in some French lists 

 Muscatelle-du-Lot, which may possibly be the same as this. 

 It is stated in Miller that the black muscadel contains berries 

 of different sizes on the same bunch ; some of the berries are 

 large and long, and they are somewhat flat and compressed 

 at the ends. It is also there mentioned that the leaves change 

 to a beautiful scarlet in autumn. 



WHITE MUSCAT OF LUNEL.PR. CAT. No. 86. 



Muscat de Lunel. 

 Lunel. 



The vicinity of Lunel formerly produced a considerable 

 quantity of muscat wine, and the celebrity of this grape is 

 doubtless attributable to that circumstance. It is not enume- 

 rated by Duhummel and other distinguished authors as speci- 

 fically distinct from the other varieties, and I therefore doubt 

 its being other than a synonyme. I received the vines now grow- 

 ing in my vineyard from the vicinity of Lunel, and shall be 



