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26. GRIZZLY FRONTIGNAN. 



Grizzly Frontignac. Speedily, No. 12. 



Grizzly Frontinac. Langley, p. 115. 



Muscat Gris. Hort. Soc. Cat. No. 63. 



Bunches middle-sized, with small narrow shoulders. 

 Berries round, larger than those of the White Fronti- 

 gnan, and growing closer upon the bunches : they are 

 of a pale brown colour, intermixed with red and 

 yellow. The Juice is very rich, and possesses a high 

 musky flavour. 



Requires a hothouse. 



It was introduced by Sir William Temple previously 

 to 1654. 



26.* LANGFORD'S INCOMPARABLE. 



Bunches rather large, about seven inches deep, with 

 well-formed shoulders of about the same extent. Berries 

 of unequal sizes : the largest are oval, six eighths of an 

 inch long, and five eighths of an inch in diameter, but 

 rather the widest at the apex : the smaller ones are less 

 oval, and the smallest ones nearly globular ; these contain 

 one small seed, and the larger ones two large seeds, each. 

 Skin brown, but of a deep purple when fully ripe, and 

 covered with a blue bloom. Flesh tender, and full of 

 Juice, which, if well ripened, is saccharine, but without 

 any peculiar musky flavour, somewhat resembling that 

 of the Black Cluster. The berries set remarkably thick 

 upon the bunches, which, if not thinned out, are apt to 

 spoil each other. 



The original plant of this fine grape is now growing 

 against the house of Mr. William Langford, at Wilton, 

 near Salisbury, where it appears to have been planted 

 some years. He says he has gathered two hundredweight 

 and a quarter of grapes from it at one time ; and some 



* No. 26. is inserted twice, in consequence of Langford's In- 

 comparable having been sent me after the numerical arrangement 

 had been completed. 



