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size than the other was ever known to attain : he says 

 some of the bunches have weighed six pounds, and some 

 of the berries half an ounce. 



It would be very desirable to come to some clear un- 

 derstanding in regard to the application of the names 

 Royal Muscadine and White Muscadine. These names 

 have been used by Miller and Speechly, and, having 

 been applied by them alike, I am reluctant to discon- 

 tinue either the one or the other, feeling satisfied that 

 the substitution of others for those already established 

 under such authority would increase, rather than dimi- 

 nish, the already too much confused nomenclature of 

 our fruits. Under this impression I have continued the 

 name of Royal Muscadine here, and shall notice its mis- 

 application when speaking of the White Muscadine. 



50. SYRIAN. Speedily, No. 32. 



The Bunches of this grape are very regularly formed, 

 with shoulders nearly as broad as the bunch is long : 

 they are also larger than those of any other sort at pre- 

 sent known. Berries large, of an oval figure. Skin 

 white. Flesh firm and hard, and, if well ripened, of a 

 pretty good flavour. The wood is very strong, and the 

 leaves large. It is an excellent bearer, and the bunches 

 when ripe may be left many weeks longer than almost 

 any other sort. 



It requires a hot-house to ripen it well. 



A. bunch of this sort was grown to a most enormous 

 size in 1781, at Welbeck, by Mr. Speechly. It mea- 

 sured nineteen inches and a half across the shoulders, 

 its length was twenty-one inches and three quarters, its 

 circumference four feet and a half, and it weighed nine- 

 teen pounds and a half. The Syrian Grape is supposed 

 to be the sort mentioned in Numbers, xiii. 23. 



51. VERDELHO. Hort. Trans. Vol. ii. p. 106. t. 8. 

 Bunches loose, rather small, inclined to shoulder. 



Berries oval, small, having numerous very small ones, 

 without seeds, interspersed ; of a greenish yellow, but 



p 2. 



