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buist's FAMIO KITCHEN gardenee. 



Reds, 

 Red Warrington, 

 Champagne, 

 Roaring Lion. 

 Rough Red, 

 Red Jam, 

 Lancashire Lad. 



Whites. 

 Queen of Sheba, 

 White Eagle, 

 Venus, 



White Smith, 

 White Sulphur, 

 Hedgehog. 



Yellows. 

 Golden Yellow, 

 Early Sulphur, 

 Yellow Ball, 

 Golden Hero, 

 Ashton Yellow, 

 Viper. 



G~ree?is. 

 Gregory's Perfection, 

 Green Ocean, 

 Green Laurel, 

 Green Gage, 

 J oily Angler, 

 Green Gaseoigne. 



GRAPE. 



Vitis, var. — Vigne^ Fr — Weintratcbe?i, Ger. 



The culture of the vine is spoken of in the remotest ages. 

 The antediluvians were no doubt perfectly familiar with its 

 growth and manufacture into an intoxicating drink. Provi- 

 dence, with a bountiful hand, distributes copiously over the 

 earth those fruits which are for the comfort and luxury of man, 

 who frequently converts these blessings into a curse, manufac- 

 turing with his own hands an engine for his destruction. The 

 practice of not allowing vines to mature their fruit till the 

 fourth year, was inculcated by Moses, who lectured on the sub- 

 ject to the Israelites. The Egyptians ascribed the manufac- 

 ture of wine to Osiris, and the Grecians to Bacchus, whom, for 

 the discovery, they elevated to the rank of a deity. Pliny de- 

 scribes many kinds of grapes, one shaped like a finger, which 

 appears to be lost. They had a vine at that period, near Rome, 



