CATALOGUE 



DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF GRAPES 



AT PBESENT CULTIVATED IIS 



THE VINEYARD OF THE AUTHOR, 



ATTACHED TO THE 



BOTANIC GARDEN. 



THE foreign grapes included in the following assortment 

 are reared from plants imported direct from the most celebrated 

 collections in France, Germany, Italy, the Crimea, Madeira, 

 &c. ; and above two hundred varieties are the identical kinds 

 which were cultivated at the Royal Garden of the Luxem- 

 bourg at Paris, an establishment formed by royal patronage 

 for the purpose of concentrating all the most valuable fruits 

 of France, and testing their respective merits. They will be 

 found enumerated in the catalogue of that establishment, it 

 having been an object of particular care to adopt and con- 

 tinue in my collection the same titles there approved for their 

 correctness. 



Many of these will be found to differ essentially from grapes 

 cultivated under similar names in some parts of the United 

 States, as in many instances the possessors of grapes of doubt- 

 ful origin have attached to them the names of old established 

 fruits, or have made "their importations from persons abroad 

 who have deceived them ; and on this point I am happy to 

 say, that the experience of a long course of years has brought 

 me into correspondence with those who are above deception. 

 But to place their identity beyond the possibility of doubt, 

 specimen vines of every kind have been planted out for bear- 

 ing, and persons desirous of seeing the fruit can view them at 

 the season of ripening, 



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