CHAPTER XVI. 
SUPPLEMENTAL LIST OF 
EXOTIC GRAPES. 
In preparing a list of the newer varieties of exotic 
pes, the object has not been to enumerate all that 
have been produced since the former edition, but to give 
only such as have met with general acceptance by the 
grape-growers of both sides of the Atiantic. Moreover 
it only includes those varieties that have entered into 
ecommerce and may be procured of the principal dealers 
in foreign vines. 
It is said that of every hundred pear-irees planted in 
this country, ninety are of the Bartlett variety. The 
Black Hamburgh holds about the same position ameng 
exotic grapes that the Bzrtlett does among pears. 
When this work was originally written, the Black 
Hamburgh stood at the head of the list, and in every 
selection of ten or five varieties for the “Cold Grapery,” 
the ‘‘Foreign House,” the ‘‘Retarding Honse,” or for 
“ Pot Culture,” the Black Hamburgh occupied a promi- 
nent place. Were similiar selections to be made now, 
_ this most useful variety vould occupy the same positions. 
As there are many beiter pears than the Bartlett, so 
there are better grapes than the Black Hamburgh. In- 
deed nearly every new variety may be its superior in some 
one particular; but when we consider all the elements 
As the eultere of out-door grapes is only incidentally 
mentioned in the original work, its purpose being to 
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