212 Gardens and Gardening in Yorkshire. 



" Muscat Eshcollata" appears to me to be nothing more than 

 the white muscat of Alexandria, which in the north is commonly 

 called the white Tokay. Fruit from Money's vine was care- 

 fully compared with the white muscat growing in the same 

 house, and the only perceptible difference was, a slightly deeper 

 shade of yellow in the former, which most likely was the result 

 of accident, and not a permanent character; for the fruit, foliage, 

 and wood of both vines agreed perfectly in every other respect. 

 Or, even if Money's muscat is a seedling which, from its hardier 

 habit, ripens its fruit a few days earlier than the white muscat, 

 still the difference between them is so exceedingly slight, that the 

 former cannot with justice be considered and sold as a distinct 

 variety. The "Eshcollata superba" is a large, oval, fleshy 

 grape, somewhat resembling, both in foliage and fruit, a sort I 

 have seen under the name of black raisin : possibly it may 

 prove identical with the red muscadel. " Money's Wests 

 Saint Peter's" is the same grape as the one sold by him under 

 the name of " Raisin des Carmes." Its berries are large and 

 oval-shaped ; the skin is thin, of a deep dull red colour, like an 

 imperfectly coloured Hamburg, and sometimes slightly mottled 

 with green. I have only seen this grape in late vineries, where 

 its merits could not be fairly developed ; yet I can confidently 

 recommend it as a valuable sort for a warm vinery, in which 

 situation its colour would probably be a better black. The 

 extreme (for a grape of its size) thinness of the skin sometimes 

 causes the berries to burst, if the atmosphere of the house is 

 moist. " Oldaker's West's St. Peter's" grape, although it has 

 the same family name, bears no relationship to the preceding 

 sort, but is distantly allied to the Black Prince, from which it 

 differs in the bunches being shorter and much more shouldered, 

 and in the berries being rather smaller and of a more dead 

 black: in flavour, too, Oldaker's grape is sharper than the 

 Black Prince, and in the same temperature it ripens ten days or 

 a fortnight later. 



With all due deference to your superior knowledge in such 

 matters, I take the liberty of telling you that the names Money's 

 West's Saint Peter's, and Oldaker's West's Saint Peter's, as 

 applied by you in a former volume of this Magazine to those 

 two varieties of grape, are highly absurd. If Money's account 

 of the origin of this grape is correct, it ought to have been called 

 " West's seedling," even although its presumed originator, West, 

 had named it " Saint Peter's," because undoubtedly this last name 

 had been previously applied to another grape. The fact of this 

 grape being known by a foreign name (raisin des Carmes) leads 

 me to suspect that it is not an English seedling, but an imported 

 variety ; and it is not unlikely that raisin des Carmes will 

 eventually be found to be its true name. 



