230: VINES 
about his house most of the time, it supplies a 
beautiful white grape of the sweet Muscat fla- 
vour. Another popular white grape is Foster’s 
Seedling, which, although not of the Muscat type, 
is of good flavour. Syrian will stand a lot of 
neglect, and still bear good-sized bunches of 
white grapes, but the choice flavour of any of the 
other varieties named is lacking. Still other good 
varieties are Alnwick Seedling, black; Angers 
Frontignan, purplish-black; Ascot Citronelle, 
a very early, pale-yellow Muscat; Golden Ham- 
burg, a large, yellow variety; and Muscat Ham- 
burg, a richly flavoured, but poorly coloured 
grape. There are hundreds of other varieties, 
but the foregoing list includes all those most 
desirable. 
Grapes of the hardy type (Vitis Labrusca) 
can be grown out-doors in almost any location, 
but to fruit well they must have a good, sunny 
position. The important points in out-door grape 
culture are pruning and training. Keep in 
mind always, that the grape produces fruit on 
small spurs or shoots which develop each year 
on mature wood that grew the previous year. 
In other words, fruit is borne by the last year’s 
canes, but on new growth. In pruning, therefore, 
we must be careful to leave some of this last year’s 
