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enormous, aad the berries are oval, small, and white ; 

 the shoulders, or stems, are very long, and the berries 

 are in clusters, at long intervals ; by no means a valuable 

 grape. 



Suahi. 



Liverden. 



Fromental. 



1 Florentine. — Very like Black July. 



Falanchma. 



1 August Muscat. — A seedling raised by M. Yibert, 

 of Angers, in France, from the grape called there the 

 Frankantal, {supposed to he what we call tJie Black Ham- 

 iurgh, as it usually proves so, when ordered from 

 France ;) it is a very weak growing vine ; the fruit is 

 black, of Muscat flavor, and is said to mature its fruit 

 earlier than any other grape ; a vine in my grapery has 

 fruited the past summer, and the fruit was small and 

 poor. It is undoubtedly the earliest grape grown, and 

 will ripen its fruit, when highly forced, in three months. 



HT Malvasia, Early White. — ^Thia is very like the Pit- 

 maston. 



^ Golden Chasselas. — Has a very large round berry, 

 with a large bunch, and is very handsome ; sets poorly 

 and cracks ; ripens early, before the other Chasselas 

 kinds. This grape varies more than any other sort in 

 its ripening. Vines, raised from the same plant, grown 

 by myself, and never out of my premises, and equally 

 well situated in a cold grapery, differ twenty days in 

 the time of ripening their fruit this season of 1848. 



Aleppo. — The bunches are large ; it is a good bearer, 



