NOMENCLATURE OF GRAPES. 15'3 



wine grape. In the season of 1828, the first year his vine 

 was of any size, it produced a second crop, one of the bunches 

 of which was nearly ripe when the frost came. 



TINTA. PR. CAT. No. 112. 



Negramole. Negra molle. 



The fruit of this vine is rather oval and of a purple colour, 

 the taste and flavour pleasant and sparkling. It ripens here 

 about the 20th of September, and is consequently one of 

 those which succeed well ; the bunches are shouldered and 

 divided ; the leaves five lobed and indented on their borders 

 and downy on the under side they also become tinted with 

 purple as the grapes advance to maturity, I consider it as 

 different from the Teinturier of France, although some writers 

 have supposed it the same. I received a number of the vines 

 direct from Madeira, and have them now in full bearing: in my 

 vineyard. This is the principal grape of which the far-famed 

 Tinta Madeira wine is made, which commands a higher price 

 than the kind in general use, and I think it one of those 

 which may be relied on for success in vineyards formed in this 

 latitude ; and in fact, so far as my experience has tested them, 

 the vines of Madeira seem particularly adapted to our cli- 

 mate, and I do not recollect a failure of any of them. It- 

 would therefore without doubt be of great advantage to ob- 

 tain all the fine varieties from that island, as there are pro- 

 bably many which we do not yet possess. 



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 BLACK MADEIRA. 



This grape I received direct from Madeira; it produces 

 abundantly, and is one of those that agree best with our clt- 

 mate ; the fruit is very juicy and of a pleasant flavour, and 

 seems well calculated both for wine and the table ; it ripens in 

 August. This vine I have found to be so nearly allied to the 

 Meunier as to present no specific distinction, and I only men- 

 tion it here to give place to the remark, that having received 



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