CHAPTER X 
LIS’ OF VARIETIES. 
To begin to individualize, or render a plain exposition 
t») the uninitiated in grape nomenclature, is a very difficult 
affair, As it now stands before the public, it is nothing 
more than a heterogeneous jumble of confusion, and the 
after a thoroughly practical understanding of the 
matter requires more time, patience, and expense, than 
even the enthusiast call be willing to encounter in the 
investigation, if he only knew beforehand the maze he 
had to travel through. To such an extent have the various 
synonymes bicmas multiplied, that the examination of 
them shows clearly the ridiculousness of the number, and 
we know are most familiar in the society in which we live, 
_ and only introducing such kinds as are distinct, or worthy 
of cultivation, headed by the most gn name ee bea 
_ it is known in our midst. It would be : 
to introdnee and deseribe some hundred seated ste 
bat when they were applied for, and obtained, wich they 
‘fre: eries in our own country 
