NOMENCLATURE OF GRAPES.. 



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side, whitish and downy beneath, and supported on large long 

 petioles. 



This grape ripens here at the end of August or beginning 

 of September, is a pleasant early table fruit and makes good 

 wine, which keeps well ; the grapes may also be kept fresh 

 through the season. It is said to thrive best on sloping ground 

 inclining to the west or south, but I consider it by no means 

 difficult in this respect as I have haa some vines for several 

 years in a most unfavourable locality where they have never 

 failed to do well. It has the same hardihood in supporting 

 frost that is common to the class generally. 



PINEAU-FRANC. PR. CAT. No. 102. 



Franc-pineau, Duh. Pinet. 



Bon plant. Pignolet. 



Raisin de Bourgogne, ^ Pinsale. 



Maurillon noir, > Erroneously. Pincaou. 



Morillon noir, y 



Vitis acinis minoribus, oblongis, dulcissimus, GARID. 



The bunch of this grape is small, of rather a conical form, 

 supported by a very short peduncle, and formed of oblong 

 berries closely set, of a flesh coloured red. The leaves are 

 dark green, lightest beneath, and covered on both sides when 

 they first expand with down, which is not the case with the 

 Morillon noir ; they are supported on long petioles, and are di- 

 vided into three principal lobes, which are slightly indented on 

 their edges. 



This vine is not very productive, but its fruit has an excel- 

 lent taste and produces the most delicate wines of Burgundy. 

 The wood is red and the joints near to each other. It will be 

 perceived that this grape is known by various names in the 

 different French vineyards, and it is often confused with the 

 other varieties of the Pineau or Morillon. 



