GRAPE VINES. 



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for all fruit trees and for many other plants, is the best material for 

 their healthy growth. 



The kinds of grapes which, from my experience, should be grown, 

 are, first, the Black Hamburgh (fig. 357). This, upon the whole, is the 

 best of all grapes. It does not keep very late after being ripe, but 



Fig. 357. — Black Hamburgh. 



Fig. 359. — Trentham 

 Black. 



Fig. 358. — Black Prince. 



becomes thick in the pulp. The larger number of vines should always 

 be Black Hamburgh. A Sweetwater comes in a few days earlier 

 than a Black Hamburgh, and therefore one vine should be of this 

 kind. Standish has a Sweetwater which is unusually early, but it has 

 not as yet fruited with me. One vine in every collection should be 

 the Black Prince (fig. 358), which, although it sometimes fails, is a nice 

 juicy grape. One vine also should be the Trentham Black (fig. 359), 

 which is also a juicy and refreshing grape, and, upon the whole, my 

 favourite black grape. There should be one vine of Ingram's Prolific 

 •Muscat (fig. 360). This grape is good and high-flavoured when it 

 has somewhat shrivelled, but not before. It is so prolific that at least 

 three-fourths of the branches should be cut off the moment they appear. 

 This variety has not been much approved, and is again going out 

 ' All figures of grapes are drawn one-fifth the natural diameter. 



