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have known excellence, and give marked prominence to 

 the best. This is becoming an easy task in respect to exotic 

 grapes, as opinions are settling down upon a solid basis ; 

 though, within a few years, there have been an unusual 

 number of seedlings brought to notice in England, which 

 give promise of becoming really valuable varieties, such 

 as the Bowood Muscat, the Muscat Hamburg, Lady 

 Downes, the Golden Hamburg, and some others. But, 

 with native kinds, experiment is rife : seedlings and hy- 

 brids are multiplying to a surprising degree ; and the list 

 will continue to extend until some one or more shall stand 

 as prominent for general excellence among our natives as 

 the Black Hamburg does among exotics. I shall en- 

 deavor to name only such as have known excellence, or 

 are now prominently before the public. 



EXOTIC KINDS. 



Aleppo. Belongs to the Chasselas family; the berries 

 being round and thin-skinned, curiously striped from 

 light to pink and black; sweet, but of second quality. 

 Knight's variegated Chasselas is probably the same. 



August Muscat. Probably the earliest grape, having 

 ripened its fruit in three months under high forcing. The 



