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covered with a bluish bloom. Juice rich, if well ripened, 

 and of a very good flavour. 

 Requires a vinery. 



12. BLACK PRINCE. Hooker, Pom. Lond. t. 45. 

 Bunches rather long, and generally unshouldered ; 



they are, however, occasionally well shouldered. Berries 

 oval, and, when well thinned out, of a very good size. 

 Skin dark blackish purple, covered with a thick blue 

 bloom. Flesh white, abounding with sweet well fla- 

 voured Juice. In pulling the berry from the stalk, a 

 long receptacle is left, which is red, and covered with 

 the white flesh. Seeds large, generally four, and some- 

 times five, in each berry. Leaves rather fleshy, broad 

 in proportion to their length, with long footstalks, tinged 

 with red : the principal lobes not deeply divided, broadly 

 serrated, becoming variegated in the autumn with pale 

 red and dark purple. 



The Black Prince is of easy culture, requiring only 

 the protection of the greenhouse or common vinery; 

 and in favourable seasons it will, on a warm dry soil, 

 ripen its fruit on a south wall. 



Mr. Hooker's drawing was made from a bunch pro- 

 duced at Highgate in 1813. 



13. BLACK RAISIN. Speedily, No. 39. 

 Raisin Grape. Miller, No. 18. 



Bunches large and long ; the largest have good-sized 

 shoulders. Berries large and oval. Skin thick, of a 

 black colour. Flesh hard and firm. Juice very high 

 flavoured. Wood long-jointed. Buds somewhat pointed. 

 Leaves large, very much serrated, with long red footstalks. 



It is a tall grape, and requires a hothouse. 



Mr. Oldacre, who has given a very good account of it in 

 theGard.Mag., says, if the bunches are cut in October 

 with long footstalks to them, and hung in the kitchen 

 so as not to touch each other, they will be so ripened 

 by the warmth of the room by Christmas as to eat ex- 

 tremely well. 



