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The white mufcadine is one of the moil 

 common grapes, and it bears and ripens 

 as well as moft. The bunches are of a 

 middle fize, fo are the berries, which are 

 of an amber colour when ripe, full of a 

 pleafant juice, have a thin ll<:in, and the 

 kernals are not too large. The vine makes 

 long healthy flioots, of a pale brown co- 

 lour, but not thick -, the leaves are of a 

 pale or yellowifh green, and fome of them 

 are variegated with white in the autumn. 

 There is one called the royal mufcadine, 

 which differs from the white mufcadine 

 only in this, that the berries and leaves 

 are of a darker green. 



The black Frontiniac. The bunches are 

 long, and the berries thinly hung upon 

 them 'y and at the time that fome are ripe 

 and of a dark brown colour, others will be 

 green : the fhape of both is longifh. They 

 are a good grape, but have not m.uch of the 

 Frontiniac taftej the leaves are large, and 

 turn brown in the autumn, fo do the fhoots, 

 which are ftrong and of the fame colour. 



N. B.Thefe kinds of grapes already men- 

 tioned will ripen in a good feafon and dry 

 foil, either in efpaliers or ftandards. 



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