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nated by the White Sweetwater, and may be con- 

 sidered as a valuable sort. The berries are black, 

 like its parent, but the bunches are composed of 

 unequally-sized berries, like the Sweetwater, and 

 ripen early in the season. 



I have not attempted to place the various sorts 

 in the foregoing list, according to the due order of 

 their ripening, because the late kinds are the fittest 

 to be propagated in the Hot-house, which in this 

 work is to be considered as the first object. 



It might, by some, perhaps be expected that I 

 should announce the flavour of every sort of grape 

 here mentioned and described : but I am very re- 

 luctant as to that particular, as persons' palates are 

 so very various ; and I have frequently found and 

 observed, that many sorts of grapes, which have 

 by some been highly commended, have by others 

 been greatly disapproved. 



I shall here beg to remark, that I have observed 

 that the leaves of white grapes in general, when 

 mature, constantly change to a yellow colour, and 

 are never in the least tinged either with purple, 

 red, or scarlet. The leaves of the. Claret Grape 

 change to a dark blue and russet green early in 

 the season. Those of the Blue Frontinac and 

 Black Muscadine, change late in the season to a 

 beautiful scarlet and yellow, intermixed. 



The leaves of the Aleppo Grape are curiously 

 striped with red, green, and yellow: the Muscadel, 

 Smyrna, Morocco, Black Damascus, Grizzly Fron- 

 tinac, and the Black Spanish or Alicant, are also 

 exceedingly beautiful. 



