NOMENCLATURE OF GRAPES. 



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great perfection, has oval berries of very large ske, with a 

 thick skin : they resemble the Malaga in taste, and in form 

 also, but are considerably smaller. The clusters are shoul- 

 dered, and formed of small divisions or grappillons, the berries 

 are not very closely set, having distance sufficient to mature 

 readily. A bunch which I saw the present season in the 

 grape-house of the Hon. John Lowell, near Boston, weighed 

 above three pounds, and was the largest and most beautiful 

 cluster of the kind I have ever seen ; other bunches weighed 

 generally rather less than two pounds. 



This vine will ripen its fruit with skilful management under 

 open culture in this vicinity. There appears to be some doubt 

 as to the last synonyrne. 



PURPLE HAMBURGH. PR. CAT. No. 14. 



I do not find this described as distinct by Speechly or For- 

 syth, but in the London Horticultural Society's catalogue it is 

 placed separately. A friend of mine who has a number of the 

 vines under culture in the same garden with the black variety, 

 considers them as different, although their general characters 

 bear much affinity : there is only a slight variation in the co- 

 lour, and the clusters are not so long. 



ESPERIONE. PR. CAT. No. 12. 

 Turner's early black. 

 Hardy blue Windsor. 



In the new edition of Forsyth the following description of 

 this grape is given : it has large shouldered bunches ; the 

 berries vary much in shape, sometimes round, frequently flat, 

 rotund, and indented at the apex, with the remains of the 

 stile there is often a groove on one or both sides, decreasing 

 from the head downward ; skin of a deep purple colour, inclin- 

 ing to black, and thickly covered with bloom ; the flesh ad- 

 heres to the skin. It has a pleasant taste, but is not high 

 flavoured or rich. The vine is very hardy, a great bearer, 

 and ripens its fruit with the sweet water and muscadine. 



