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OF THE CULTURE 



species ; but the bunches are always composed of 

 Jarge berries of an equal size, and with one stone 

 in each. This circumstance of the berries being 

 equal in size, renders the bunches of a more 

 agreeable appearance. The foliage in both is ex- 

 ceedingly beautiful in the autumn, and very 

 similar. This may be reckoned a truly valuable 

 grape* * 



4. ALEPPO GRAPE. 



This is a middle-sized roundish grape, with a 

 thin skin, and delicate juicy flesh. The colour is 

 commonly very various. I have seen on the same 

 bunch some berries quite white, others entirely 

 black, but the major part are curiously striped with 

 black and white. Sometimes a berry will be one 

 half white and the other half black : but what ap- 

 pears most remarkable is, that the colours do not 

 intermix, but are divided by straight lines, as if 

 painted. The leaves of this sort are in the autumn 

 very curiously striped, with red, green, and yellow, 

 something similar to the Aleppo lettuce. *f 



5. RED GRAPE FROM SYRACUSE. 



This is a very large grape, of a red colour, and 

 of an oval figure, somewhat irregularly formed. 

 The berries hang rather loosely on the bunches, 

 which are pretty large. This noble grape is but 

 little known in this country. * 



6. LE COEUR GRAPE, OR MOROCCO GRAPE. 



This species produces large berries, in figure 



