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allowed to hang until they be perfectly ripe, when the ber- 
ries acquire a slight russet color. It has long been a favor- 
ite grape. 
The Grove-End Sweetwater is early, and of good qual- 
ity; the berries having a rich vinous flavor. It is the 
better for artificial impregnation. 
Stillward’s Sweetwater or Chasselas précoce is a recent 
variety of considerable merit. It is desirable for earliness 
and the bunches possess the property of keeping good on 
the plant for two or three months after the berries are 
ripe. 
Black Morillon or Burgundy Grape, or Small Black 
Cluster, ripens in England against a south wall. 
The Black Prince is of easy cultivation, and the berries 
‘are of a pleasant flavor. 
The Zante, or Corinth Grape, is often called Zante 
Currant. In general it is a shy bearer, and the berries are 
small; but Mr. Gow, gardener at Tulliallan, having ferti- 
lized some bunches with the pollen of the Black Hamburgh, 
found that they set more freely, and that the berries were 
larger and better flavored; a hint worth attending to in 
other cases. 
The Verdelho has loose bunches, berries of a greenish- 
yellow color, small, oval, numerous; when fully ripe, of a 
rich sacharine flavor. It is the principal grape cultivated 
in Madeira for making the celebrated wine of that island. 
The plant grows vigorously ; and Mr. Knight has observed 
of it that the same degree of shade which would render the 
greater number of sorts wholly unproductive, scarcely 
affects the fertility of this; a convenient property, which 
adapts it for the back wall of a glazed-house. The same 
horticulturist mentions another economical property of the 
verdelho; it bears plentifully when planted in very small’ 
