MANAGEMENT OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 73 



^ 53. The Black Prince. This has fine large berries, and 



I the bunches grow to a large size : I have had them, in a fa- 

 vourable season, on the natural wall, v/eigh a pound and a 

 half. This grape very well deserves a place in the hot-house 

 and viner}'. 



To the foregoing maij be added: 



Black Frankindale, Red Constantia, 



Black Gibraltar, Red Raisin, 



Black Muscat of Alexandria, Sir Abraham Pitchers Fine 



The Miller Grape, Black, 



New White Sweet Water, West's St. Peter, 



Passe Musk, White Constantia. 



Pearl Muscadine, 



From the Red and ^^Tiite Constantia is made the famous 

 Constantia Wine, so called from a place near the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



My worthy friend. Colonel Paterson^, informs me, that 

 this vine, when transplanted to but a small distance from that 

 spot, produces a very inferior wine. In his narative he 

 says, " Constantia produces excellent wine, though the situa- 

 tion is rather low. It is, however, preferable to all other parts 

 of this district ; not only because it is rather more elevated, 

 but on account of the nature of the soil, which is a light sandy 

 loam." 



Select Vines for a small Garden* 



The White Muscadine ; White Sweet Water; Black 

 Sweet Water ; Large Black Cluster ; Small Black Cluster ; 

 the Miller Grape. 



St. Peter's, and the Black Hamburgh, will do very well 

 in favourable seasons. 



Of the Propagation of Vines. 



The vine is propagated by seeds, cutiirgs, and layers ; 

 and bv grafting and inoculation. 



^Vhen vines are to be raised from seed, it should be sown 

 about the latter end of February, or beginning of March, in 

 pots filled with light fresh mould, and plunged in a moderately 

 warm hot-bed, gently sprinkling the mould from a waterinjr- 

 pot having a fine rose. About six or eight seeds, if good, will 



* This gentleman is well known in the Literary World, by his Nara- 

 tive of Four journies into the Country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria ; 

 from whence he sent a great man_.- new plants and seeds to England. He also 

 brought home with him some curious skins ; and good drawings of many- 

 plants, animals, S;c. 



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