NOMENCLATURE OP GRAPl^. 113 



EARLY OVAL. 



By this title a grape is known and cultivated around Bos- 

 ton which is much valued ; the fruit ripens very early, the 

 skin is thin, and the flavour delicious ; the berries grow close, 

 and are generally thinned out by cultivators. 



I noticed a large number of very thrifty vines in the nurse- 

 ries of the Messrs. Winships at Brighton, in whose collection 

 are also concentrated a great variety of the choicest kinds of 

 vines to be found in the grape houses and gardens around 

 Boston ; in addition to which, they have a large assortment of 

 fruit and ornamental trees, plants, &c. which they show great 

 enterprise in extending. 



JULY GRAPE. PR. CAT. No. 1. 



Maurillon hatif, Duh. 



Madeleine. 



Morillon Jtatif. 



MorilJon noir hatif. 



Petit morillon hatif. 



Raisin precoce. 



Raisin de la madeleine. 



Early black cluster. 



Magdalen. 



Vitis pr&cox of Columella. 



Vitis acinoparvo, subrotundo, nigricante, pracoci. DUH, 



The leaves of this vine are small, of a light green hue above 

 and beneath, and the borders indented with large teeth some- 

 what pointed ; the bunches are small and very compact $ the 

 berries which compose them are also small, round, and of a 

 blackish violet colour, covered with bloom they are sweet 

 but not high flavoured, the principal merit consisting in their 

 early maturity, it being the earliest of all foreign grapes ex- 

 cept the one next described, and in this vicinity ripening its, 

 fruit early in August. It serves as an appendage to the des- 

 sert where persons pride themselves on the earliest fruit. The 



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