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as ‘‘shot grapes.’’ These berries, after the raisins have gone 
through the stemmer and graded, are kept separate and packed 
and sold as such, the demand being active and an advanced price. 
Sunrana (syn. Seedless Sultana, Sultanieh, Sultanina ; in 
California, Thompson’s Seedless; in England, Lady de Coverley; 
in Asiatic Turkey, Kismish, a term given to seedless grapes of 
which two are cultivated—the ‘‘round-fruitel” and the ‘‘oval- 
fruited” (also more valuable one, which is here described) :— 
Vine: growth strong, upright, with long climbing canes; bark 
rough, and tearing in long’ strips. Wood: very lone and sirong 
canes, long-jointed but not very thick nodes; smail buds; laterals 
and tendrils numerous; wood not hard, red brown; bunches car- 
ried from the fifth, sixth, or seventh node, hence the necessity of 
long pruning. Leaves: large, not very deeply lobed, strongly 
serrated, thin and flat, bright green, smooth and shining above, 
lighter green and smooth below, die yellow in autumn, long leaf 
stalk. Bunches large and loose, from 6 to 12 inches long, and 4 
to 6 inches wide at the shoulders; stalk long, green, and not 
woody. Berries: small to medium, oval, skin green, thin but tough, 
semi-transparent, becoming pale-yellowish as it ripens, covered 
with light bloom, flesh tender, sweet, juicy, firm, and erackling, of 
the consistency and flavour of the Sweetwater, and contains no 
seeds, 
Cultural Notes——The defect of this vine is to be a poor bearer 
unless pruned long ; and even the long pruning, as generally 
practised on other varieties, does not yield the best results. <A 
modification of this is advisable in pruning the Sultana. A suffi- 
ciency of laterals which shoot out along the canes should be left 
on the long rods which are cut back about three feet lune, These 
laterals possess plump buds, and are well summered to the very 
tip. Train the long rods bearing these laterals along the central 
wire of a T-shaped trellis, and blind the buds at the joints of rods, 
except the first two from the stem; bend the laterals about 12 
inches long in ares; they bear the crop. Wood for renewing is 
supplied by encouraging the vigorous growth of one or two canes 
at the base of the rods. For that purpose rub off or destroy all 
barren shoots, and only leave on the fruitful laterals sufficient 
wood to carry a crop commensurate with the strength of the vine. 
This is done by pinching the shoots from these fruitful laterals 
back to the eighth or ninth leaf and limiting the length of the 
rods to about three feet only. 
The Sultana does well in deep, fresh, alluvial soil with good. 
natural water and air drainage. In Australia it is grown on strong 
and gravelly soil. If matures its crop towards the end of the 
middle season, and is a good packer as well as an excellent raisin 
grape. Subject to oidium and to anthracnose or ‘‘black spot.” 
