NOMENCLATURE OP GRAPES. 



I have already remarked that some vines sent from England 

 for this kind proved to be the black hamburgh. I have some 

 vines however in bearing, which I received two years since 

 from an undoubted source, and I shall soon be able to deter- 

 mine whether they are in reality as distinct as the description. 



OEIL DE TOURD. PR. CAT. No. 53. 

 Chalosse. 

 Prunelas. 

 Dove's eye. 



This is not considered in France as an esteemed table 

 fruit, there being so many superior to it ; the berries are white 

 and of an oval form. It has been cultivated in several gar- 

 dens around New-York as an eating grape. Among the 

 French it is better known by the second title, but in this vici^- 

 nity is more generally called by the first. 



STRIPED ALEPPO. PR, CAT, No. 7, 

 Morillon panache. 

 Chasselas panacht, Duh. 

 Raisin suisse. 

 Raisin d'Alep. 

 Pineau noirin . 

 Suriss. 



Striped morillon. 

 Variegated chasselas. 

 Striped muscadine. 

 Vitis acino rotunda, media, bipartite nigro, bipartite albido. ROZIEK. 



This grape was brought to France during the crusades, and 

 is one among the many proofs which exist that the age of a 

 variety is no preventive to its vigour and fertility when it en- 

 joys a suitable climate and soil, and is under proper culture. 

 1 have not adopted the title of chasselas, because I have found 

 those I have cultivated to be decidedly of the family of the 

 morillon, having the same form, size, and taste, and ripening 

 at the same period. 



The leaves are dark green, divided into lobes of consider- 



