324 THE GRAPE. 



selas or Royal Muscadine. Berries round, yellowish white. 

 Skin thin. Flesh sweet, juicy, and agreeable in flavour. Ripens 

 in August. The leaves are pale green on the upper side, slight 

 ly downy below, cut into five, rather deep lobes. 



19. PITMASTON WHITE CLUSTER. 



A pretty hardy grape, raised in Pitmaston, England, from the 

 Black Cluster, ripening rather earlier than the Sweetwater, of 

 good quality, and well deserving a place where the foreign grapes 

 are cultivated in the open air. 



Bunches of medium size, compact and shouldered. Berries 

 middle sized, round. Skin thin, amber colour, occasionally 

 tinged with a little russet when fully ripe. Flesh tender, juicv, 

 sweet and excellent. 



20. ROYAL MUSCADINE. Thomp. Lind. Mill. 



Amber Muscadine. Chasselas blanc. ") 



Early White TeneruTe. Chasselas de Fontainebleau. I . 



Golden Chasselas. D'Arbois. V JT*^ 



White Chasselas, Kaisin de Champagne. 



Chasselas dore. Amiens. 



A truly excellent grape in all respects one of the very best 

 for hardy culture in this climate, or for the vinery. It is every- 

 where highly esteemed, and is the Chasselas 

 par excellence of the French. 



Bunches large, and shouldered. Berries, 

 (fig. 94,) larger than those of the Sweetwater, 

 round. Skin thin, at first greenish white, 

 but turning to an amber colour when fully 

 ripe. Flesh tender, with a rich and delicious 

 flavour. Ripens here about the 20th of Sep- 

 Royal Muscadine. tem b er . Wood and foliage stronger than 

 those of the Sweetwater. 



21. SCOTCH WHITE CLUSTER. Tliomp. 

 Blacksmith's White Cluster. 



This is a new grape, not yet fairly tested in this country, but 

 which is likely to prove a valuable one for garden culture, as it 

 has the reputation in England of being very hardy, very early, 

 and a great bearer. It was raised from the seed by a black- 

 smith of Edinburgh in 1812. 



Bunches of middle size, compact. Berries medium sized, 

 roundish-oval. Skin white, thin. Flesh tender, juicy, sweet, 

 and excellent. 



