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skin allows them to be subjected to the attacks of bees and 

 other insects, which injure the fruit, and thereby render it liable 

 to decay and fall off. In other respects, this grape is not cal- 

 culated to keep long, and the juice although pleasant, is not 

 high flavoured. 



Some cultivators and amateurs have essayed to preserve the 

 bunches in brandy, and have completely succeeded. It is 

 often called by the name given as the last synonyme. This vine 

 was cultivated in the Luxembourg royal garden, having been 

 obtained from Aix. The shoots of those growing in my vine- 

 yard, surpass many other kinds in size and vigour. 



WHITE SEEDLESS CORINTH. PB. CAT. No. 24. 



Corinthe blanc, Duh. 



Corinthe sans pepins. 



Kishmishi. 



Uvapassa bianca. 



Corinthian vine. 



White Kismish, Trans. Lond. Hort. Soc. 



Yellow stoneless. 



Vitis acino minima, rotunda, albido, sine nucleis, Corinthia. DUH. 



The leaves of this vine are large five lobed, the three centre 

 ones being large, and the lateral ones less distinct, the edges 

 are also irregularly indented. The upper surface is green, and 

 the under side so very downy, that it appears almost white. 

 The bunches are four to five inches long, and are composed 

 of numerous berries, of very small size, closely set, and covered 

 with a bloom, and of the same colour as the white chasselas. 



The flesh is very melting, and full of sweet and very pleasant 

 juice, and the grapes ripen early in September. 



The berries have no seeds, nevertheless, there are some found, 

 (but very rarely,) containing seeds ; in such case, the berries 

 containing them, grow four or five times as large as the others 

 on the same bunch ; which goes to prove, that if all the berries 

 were fertilized, the bunches would acquire a much larger size. 

 Tn fact, the vine is large in all its parts, except in its miniature 



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