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/--: with * rich vinous flavour. It is Suited only for the 



^' _ ' vinery and hot-house. 



( >(' the Black Grapes, one of the most hardy kinds is 



j ; .; called the Miller, or Dusty Miller, from a white pow- 

 dery appearance on the surface of its leave* : It is near- 

 ly allied to the black cluster grape. It is much culti- 

 vated in gardens, and against the front and gable walls 

 of houses in the south-west of England : the fruit ripens 

 freely, and is very good, the skin and pulp being deli- 

 cate, and the juice sweet and pleasant ; the berries are 

 oval, of a middling sixe, and closely placed to each 

 other in the bunches. 



The Early July has small black round berries, with 

 large stones ; they grow loose on the bunches, which 

 are small, but numerous ; juice sugary, with but little 

 flavour. It ripens early in September, without fire 

 heat. There is also a White July grape, which is little 

 cultivated. 



The Black Steettivaler is a small roundish grape, 

 growing close in the bunches ; the skin is thin, and the 

 juice very sweet. It ripens early, and is calculated 

 either for the vinery or the walL 



The Small Black Clutter resembles the Miller grape, 

 but the leave* are not quite so hoary, and are rather 

 mailer. The fruit is sweet, and of delicate 

 This is extremely common on walla of 



In the 



l*rgt Black Outer, the berries are oval, and 

 grow elate in the bunch, which, notwithstanding the 

 name, i* not large. The juice has a banh taste, and 

 make* the psiete feel rough, a* in testing Port wine ; 

 Mr Speedily indeed considers it a* the sort used in the 

 manufacture of that celebrated wine. 



In the Black MtutaJime, the bunches and berries are 

 mailer than hi the white; it is a very productive kind, 

 and makes foe appearance, the black berries having 

 e bluish bloom. Fit for the vinery or the hot-house. 



The tranche* of the Black F,oniinac are long, and 

 the berries, which are round and of moderate sue, are 

 thinly or loosely hung on them. They are of good qua- 

 lity, thejuice being vinous, and of exquisite flavour. 



The Black Hamburph is well known and generally 

 iikcd. The berries are somewhat of an oval stupe, the 

 skin thick, ami the pulp hard ; but it is a well flavour- 

 ed fruit, and the tree been plentifully. The 

 are large, and handsomely shouldered. It i 

 well in the vinery ; but, in the open air, it come* to 

 maturity only in very warm situation* and in favoura- 



The Aliemmt. or 



en oval shape; at first they are red or name-coloured , 

 but when npe, they become of a dark brawn or black 

 colour; the skin i. thick, and the stone* large; the 

 pulp soft and juicy, and of agreeable flavour. It . - 

 often celled the Lombardy grape, and sometimes the 

 Rhenish. It i* excellent for the hot- bouse or the vine- 

 ry. In autumn the leave* ere finely variegated with 

 red, green, sad yellow. 



I'rtrr. frmpt has the berry large, roundish, black ; 

 skin thin ; the tiemhss large, handsomely formed, and 

 making a fine appearance at table; the pulp delicate 

 ead hiicy. The vine is a good bearer, but the grape* 

 are late of ripening. They are apt to crack in the for- 

 cing home, or in the vinery. In fine season*, this kind 

 ripens on a south wall. 



Clarrl frrapr i distinguished by its banh sourish 

 taste, and dark claret colour ; when the grape* ere per- 

 Srrtly ripened in a hot-boose, however, the taste is 



vol. xj. 



pleasant The berries are small, and grow close, on 

 small bunches. The leaves are large, and acquire a 

 russet red or claret colour ; on which account they have 

 been recommended for making vine- leaf 'wine. 



The Black Prince is an excellent grape, well deserv- 

 ing a place in the hot-house or the vinery, where it 

 produces both large berries and large bunches. Even 

 on the open wall, in the south of England, it succeeds 

 in favourable season* : Forsyth mentions, that in this 

 way he has had bunches which weighed a pound and 

 a half, and which ripened in October. 



Beside* the list already given, two or three others de- 

 serve notice. 



The I'erdeUio, or Verdellio grape of Madeira, is the 

 kind from which the celebrated Madeira wine is under- 

 stood to be principally made. The vine grows with 

 great vigour in our grape-houses, and is remarkably 

 productive of fruit, frequently yielding three bum-he* 

 on a shoot. Here, however, the bundles are but small ; 

 the berries are also of diminutive size, of an oval shape, 

 green colour, and with-a thin skin. The fruit U 

 acid till it arrive at the last stage of maturity, when tht 

 berries become of a fine amber colour, and of a very rich 

 saccharine taste, with considerable flavour. Mr Wil- 

 liams of I'itmaston, near Worcester, has given an ac- 

 count of this variety in the 2d volume *f the London 

 Horticultural Transactions ; and he expresses his opi- 

 nion, that in favourable situations in the south-west of 

 England it would succeed on the open wall, especially 

 where the soil is light, dry, and shallow, but that in a 

 deep highly manured soil, it would run too much to 

 wood and foliage. The leaf i* dark green, and very 

 thick ; and would resist the autumnal frosts, and pro- 

 tect the fruit till a late period in October. The verJel- 

 ho is much cultivated in the province of Langucdoc in 

 France ; it is described by Delatmay under the name 

 of Vtnial, and is highly esteemed at Paris, it* berries 

 being accounted the mot sugary and delicate in flavour 

 of all the dessert sort*. In r ranee the bunches I*-. 

 tolerably large, and very beautiful; and the berries 

 also acquire considerable sise. 



The /fount air Carmet, or, a* it is sometime* called, 

 Raitim eV CoAo, is a grape of fine qualities. The fruit is 

 produced in rather loose long bunches; the berries 

 large and of an oval form. The skin is thickish, of a 

 dusky purple colour, covered with a fine bloom ; thr 

 pulp i* firm and extremely rich, though containing 

 of acid. The filaments and an- 

 when the Iriiit i ripe. The 

 a high temperature ; in the stove it grows 

 freely end been well, but it reiiuirrs particular atten- 

 tion at the time of flowering. The wood is rather slen- 

 der, of a yellowish- brown colour ; the leave* small, and 

 pale greek It i* figured by Hooker, in the Pomona 

 Lamdtnnuii. t. 10. 



The Raton grape i* of a brown or blackish colour ; 

 large, oval, fleshy and firm, but with a pleasant juice; 

 forming handsome long bunches. It also i* only suit- 



e-.l t.. t!ie li..;-l>,,mo. 



The .SjrrM* grapr, is among the coarsest of the grape 

 kind ; but the vine is a good bearer under glass, and 

 produces bunches of extraordinary sice. The berries 

 are large, oval, white, with a thick -kin and firm pulp; 

 they continue in good condition till January. In this 

 country, Mr Speedily once produced a bunch wbich 

 weighed 19J Ib. and he describes another which was 

 four feet and a half in circumference, and near two 

 feet in length. Thi* la*t bynch was sent to the di*. 

 tance of twenty miles as a present. Four men were 

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