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DESCRIPTIONS 



5. FOX GRAPE. 



Scuppertwng. 



This grape is a southern species, and known as the Vitis Vulpina. The bunches bear 

 about a dozen thick-skinned berries, and larger than the Isabella, and round. Flesh 

 acid near the seeds, and rather disagreeably musky ; but the perfume is fine and 

 pleasant. It grows well in Maryland near Baltimore, and with protection, or laying 

 down would succeed well here. 



II. FOREIGN GRAPES. 

 A. Color dark red, purple and black. 



6. BLACK HAMBURGH. 



Fruit large, wider than high, and growing in clusters shouldered on 

 both sides. Color when ripe, black. Flesh sugary and rich. The 

 vine bears well in the house, and sheltered, but does not ripen in 

 the open air. 



Fig. I. 



7. BLACK PRINCE. 



Fig. i. 



Fruit of the medium size, round, or slightly oval, growing 

 in long thinly set clusters. Skin tough and thick, and 

 thickly covered with a blue bloom. Flavor sweet and ex. 

 cellent. Rarely ripens in the open air. 



8. BLACK MOROCCO. 



Fruit large, oval, higher than wide, or elongated. Reddish pur- 

 ple, and running into black. Flesh green, seeds green and large ; 

 taste slightly acid, though rich. Grows in large clusters, the 

 berries of which have a thick skin. Downing remarks that it 

 requires to be fertilized by the pollen of the Black Hamburgh, 

 or some other hardy sort ;* that it is late in ripening, and requires 

 for this end a good deal of heat. 



* It is difficult to understand why it is essential to the ripening or perfection of a fruit of the grape kind, that it 

 should be fertilized by the pollen of another variety. The pollen can have no influence, except upon the seed. The 

 pollen of an apple blossom, falling upon the stigma of another variety of apple, will not have the least influence in 



