NOMENCLATURE OP GRAPES. 



TABLE GRAPES OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES. 



The following are celebrated table grapes cultivated in 

 England, France, our own country, and elsewhere, the quali- 

 ties of which are so various, that I have not been able to form 

 them into distinct classes. I have, however, in many cases, 

 placed those in succession whose characters most nearly assi- 

 milate. 



BLACK HAMBURGH. PR. CAT. No. 13. 



Franc-kental, Duh. 



Frankenthaler of the Dutch. 



Hampton Court vine. 



Esperione of some Boston collections. 



Warner's black Hamburgh. 



Frarikendale. 



* 



Salisbury violet. 



Vitis uvd media; acinis avoides, saturate violaceis,dulcibus. DUH. 



It is this grape which is stated by English authors to have 

 produced at Hampton Court, on a single vine, more than a 

 ton weight of grapes in one season, as mentioned at page 26. 

 The leaves are almost smooth on the under side, or very 

 slightly pubescent ; they are pretty deeply five lobed, with the 

 border unequally indented. The bunches are six to nine 

 inches in length, regularly shouldered, and descending to a 

 point, so as to form an elongated triangle ; there is a greater 

 regularity throughout the bunches generally, than in those of 

 most other grapes, and they commonly average in weight 

 from one to one and a half pounds, though many are met with 

 weighing two pounds. I have never seen bunches weighing 

 four pounds, as some books state, although I have viewed 

 them under every favourable circumstance ; and I wish those 

 who are unacquainted with the subject to understand that it 

 takes a large sized cluster of grapes to weigh two pounds. 

 The berries are large, oval, somewhat rounded, of a deep 

 violet colour approaching to black ; they are sweet, of a delicate 



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