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medium, round; skin thick, black, covered with a thick blue bloom; 
juicy, and rather astringent. 
Cultural Notes—Wine of no special character. Comes into 
leaf late, Resists all sorts of fungoid diseases well. Pruned short, 
and trained bush fashion. Heavy yielder; very hardy; grows in any 
soil, but does especially well on drained limestones and in hot 
localities. 
Morrasten (syn. Burgundy [?] in W.A.—A profitable red 
Wine grape. Season: mid-season (third period). Merits: combines 
quality with quantity; resists diseases well. Vine: strong, up- 
right, fruitful. Wood: thick, pretty hard, of a reddish colour; 
joints not very long; nodes strong and swollen. Buds, hairy white. 
Leaves: strong, light green, three to five lobes, not very indented; 
glabrous on upper surface, and somewhat cottony on underside; 
leaf-stalk and veins red; dies yellow with red patches. Bunch: 
large, winged, and conical; berries close set, black, with blue bloom, 
obong, juicy. 
Cultural Notes—F¥ruitful in soil well adapted to its 
growth. Does remarkably well on hillsides, where it produces a 
wine full of character, with a rich grenat colour, suitable for 
blending. It also does well in heavy or in loamy soil. The buds 
burst late, and is therefore late affected by light frost; the bunches 
set very well; resists well cryptogamic fungoid diseases. Does not 
do so well in sandy land, where its yield is not so great. In damp 
places the vine is liable to rot at the crown, and shoots come up 
again from the roots; in rich soil it grows wood and leaves too 
luxuriantly for fruit production, The lower buds being fruitful 
and the growth erect, short pruning suits it best. 
Rep Muscat or Frontignan (syn. Constantia, in W.A.)— 
(See above.) 
Suiraz (syn. Hermitage) Extensively grown in the cele- 
brated Hermitage vineyards of France (Rhone Valley), supposed 
to have been introduced from Persia. Ripens mid-season (second 
period). Produces an excellent wine of good colour, body, and 
keeping quality, particularly adapted for the natural conditions 
met with in Australia and should constitute the foundation of red 
Australian wine, both for the local and for the export market. 
Vine: somewhat spreading, vigorous and fruitful. Wood: long- 
jointed, strong, of a brown-grey colour in the winter. Leaves: 
large, of a light-green, somewhat undulating, glabrous on the top 
and with flaky down underneath; particularly along the veins, fine- 
lobed, but not very deeply indented; teeth large and blunt. Fruit: 
bunch elongated, cylindrical, sometimes rather loose, but in well 
selected vines closer in the bunch, winged, with a long, slender, 
yellow stalk, which snaps easily when picking; berries medium- 
sized, oval, black, covered with bloom, thin but tough skin, juicy. 
