272 THE FRUIT MANUAL. 



ALEPPO {Ghasselas Panache; Morillon Panache; Raisin d'Alep; 

 Baidn Suisse). — Bunches, medium sized, loose, and not shouldered. 

 Berries, medium sized, round, of various colours, some heing black, 

 others white or red, while some are striped with black, or red and 

 white ; sometimes a bunch will be half white and half black ; and 

 others are wholly white or wholly black. The flesh is inferior in 

 flavour. 



The vine succeeds in a warm vinery, but requires the hothouse 

 to bring it to perfection. The leaves are striped with green, red, and 

 yellow. 



ALEXANDKIAN CIOTAT.— Bunches, large, long, and loose, with 

 narrow shoulders. Berries, oval. Skin, thin, pale yellow, but becoming 

 of an amber colour as the fruit are highly ripened, and covered with 

 numerous russety dots. Flesh, firm and breaking, juicy, and well 

 flavoured. 



Eipens with the heat of a vinery. A good bearer, but the bunches 

 set badly. 



This is in all respects similar to the Muscat of Alexandria in the 

 fruit, but has no Muscat flavour. 



Alexandrian Frontignan. See Muscat of Alexandria. 



ALICANTE {Black Ldsbon ; Black Portugal; Black Palestine; 

 Black Spanish ; Black St. Peter's ; Black Tokay ; Black Valentia ; 

 Meredith's Alicante; St. Peter's; Esjjagnin Noir ; Alicantenwein ; 

 Blauer von Alicante ; Sanct Peter's Traube ; Schwarzer Spanischer). — 

 Bunches, large, and sometimes shouldered, frequently cylindrical and 

 long, occasionally broadly ovate, and always well set. Berries, large, 

 perfectly oval or olive- shaped, jet black, and covered with a thin blue 

 bloom. Skin, tough and membranous, but not too thick. Berry stalks 

 less than half an inch long, very slightly and thinly warted, and with 

 a small receptacle. Flesh, very tender, adhering a httle to the skin, 

 juicy, and with a flavour similar to that of Black Hamburgh. Seeds, 

 rather large, varying from one to three in each berry, and attached to 

 a seed-string tinged with red. 



A fine large showy grape, both in bunch and berry, which hangs 

 remarkably well, and is an excellent late variety. 



I have been thus minute in the description of this grape because of the great 

 confusion that exists as to the varieties bearing this name. It is the Alicante of 

 Speechly, and it is also the true Black St. Peter's (not West's St. Peter's), and in 

 my investigations of the vineyards of the south of France I have found it under 

 the name of Espagnin Noir. 



The name of Alicante is given to several varieties of grapes in the south of 

 France and in the Peninsula, but is not applicable to any variety in particular. In 

 the department of Gard, it is applied to Gromiar du Cantal; in Andalusia to tlie 

 Tintilla and Tinto ; in Provence to Mourvdde; and in the Eastern Pyrenees to 

 Matara. Then the Alicante of Bouches-des-Rhone vineyards is the Granaxa of 

 Arragon, and Oranache of Eastern Pyrenees ; while, in the neighbourhood of 

 Alicante, the name is given to two or three different sorts. In Great Britain 

 Black Prince is sometimes, but erroneously, called Alicante ; and the variety which 

 in the second edition of this work was called Kempsey Alicante, I have discovered 

 to be nothing else than the Morocco. 



