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require thinning before they ripen. The skin is thin, 

 the pulp substantial, and of a peculiarly high and 

 rich musky flavour. The tree is an abundant bearer ; 

 and, as the growth is not luxuriant, the spur method 

 of pruning is suitable. This is one of Sir William 

 Temple's introduction, and in some favourable sea- 

 sons has been known to acquire considerable perfec- 

 tion on the open wall, as well as on layers of the 

 same year. A light sandy loam is the best soil for 

 this and all the other kinds of Muscat grapes, in 

 order to have their high flavour in perfection. 



12. White Frontigniac, — This variety in all re- 

 spects is much like the preceding, except in the 

 colour, and some little difl^erence in the size of the 

 berries, those of this kind being somewhat larger. The 

 bunches, like the other, require thinning to prevent 

 the central ones rotting. The skin is thin, covered with 

 a whitish dust or bloom; the pulp extremely rich, and 

 of as high a musky flavour as the black. This is 

 regarded by many as a superior fruit, and one of the 



^ best in cultivation. 



13. Grizzly Frontigniac, — Seems to be a union of 

 qualities, habit, and form, as well as of, the colours 

 of the other two ; its principal use in collections 

 being to add variety in the dessert, 



14. Red Frontigniac, — This variety is said by 

 some pretending judges to be superior to the others 

 of its name, but the writer never could discover that 

 it is really so. The bunches are in shape similar to 

 those of the white, and not so closely set as those of 

 the grizzly. Colour, dark red ; skin rather thick ; 



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