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The red Hamburgh Is an excellent grape? 

 and is fure to ripen in a good fummer : 

 the berries are very large, and finely co- 

 loured 'y if they hang their full time, fome 

 of the bunches will turn black. 



The black Hamburgh ripens a little after 

 the red, and has all the good qualities of 

 the other: the leaves are large as v^ell as 

 the flioots, and fliould be nailed no lefs 

 than a foot apart, in the fummer. 



The grape called by fome the raifin 

 grape, and by the French Le Sanmoireau : 

 the berries are of a long fhape, very large, 

 and of a pale brown colour -, they have a 

 very long ftalk, and hang thin upon the 

 bunches, which are pretty large ; the fruit 

 eats flefhy, but has a very pleafant juice; 

 the leaves are very large, and fo are the 

 branches, which bear well, if they are laid 

 thin againft the wall. 



The white Frontiniac is a grape of a very 

 fweet and perfumed tafte : the berries are 

 round, and the greateft part of them are 

 pretty large, and when full ripe have a 

 fine white dull on them, and the fide next 

 the fun is fometimes a little fpotted with 

 brown: this.vine bears very well, and the 

 fruit will ripen in fome feafons without any 

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