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Note, That vvhlcli is called the white is 

 of an amber colour: the other is black, 

 and its leaves turn red in the autumn. 



There is another, called the French fweet 

 water, or the Arbois grape : it ripens very 

 v/eir^ the berries are round, but not fo laj-ge 

 as the form_er, and of a greener colour ; the 

 branches are alfo longer and fmaller, and the 

 leaves are meally on their under fides. 



The currant clufter or black Zauth grape. 

 It has a blue powder on the berries, when 

 ripe ', they are of a middle fize, and a little 

 longifii in their fliape, being clofely placed 

 together on the bunches, w^hich are not 

 large. The vine is a good bearer, and the 

 young leaves, before they are full grown, 

 look meally, but after are of a dark green, 

 with an uneven furface. It ripens almoft as 

 foon as the July grape, and is far better. 



The meally, or millers grape, has round 

 berries of a middle fize, and clofely placed 

 to each other on the bunches ; they have a 

 thin covering of blue upon them, when 

 full ripe, and the leaves and young fnoots 

 are of a white or meally colour; they ge- 

 nerally ripen very well, and are a tolerable 

 good grape. 



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