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and with all the qualities requisite for furnishing a very fine wine. 

 We would invite the attention of cultivators of the Vine to this spe- 

 cies, recommending a trial of it in situations where it is difficult to 

 ripen the grape. If the wine itself should not be even equal to beer, 

 or cider, the grape itself would be one resource the more at harvest 

 time, and for the tables of the poor. 



Many writers have confounded this fine variety with the preceding, 

 to which it has no points in common, save color and early ripening. 

 To prove the error, I shall state the following facts. 



Under the same tilling, training and pruning as the Ischian grape, 

 the Magdalen grape for several successive years, gave always an early 

 yield, but only the single crop the season ; while the Ischian gave 

 three crops in 1822, and only two perfectly ripe in 1823 — 24, which 

 were unfavourable seasons. In 1825 the vine exceeded all expecta- 

 tion ; slips trained in espalier gave an abundant crop, full ripe, the 

 18th August ; the 20th September, the splendid second growth was 

 dead ripe, and the fruit fuller and larger than the first ; while at the 

 same period, the berries of the third crop had filled and were begin- 

 ning to turn, and the fourth crop was in blossom. The latter ripened 

 on the 30th October ; it was very abundant, tolerably handsome, and 

 slightly acidulous; and the berries were of the size of small peas. 



This vine, cultivated in the open field, with its branches wound 

 around strong posts, four feet in height, produced in 1825, on the 10th 

 September, a first crop which was in every view magnificent ; and 

 the 30th October a second crop perfectly ripe, and quite abundant ; 

 but the bunches were small. 



2. THE miller's grape. 



The Miller's grape is the earliest to ripen of any ; it is easily known 

 from all the other varieties, by the greyness of the leaves, which, es- 

 pecially in the spring, are covered with a thick, silky, whitish down. 

 It will thrive in a very meagre soil, and is not tender to the frost ; but 

 if nipped, it does not ren^w the blossom that season. The bunch- 

 63 are thick and short; the berries rather crowded, round, large, of a 

 very pale yellow, and a sweet, agreeable flavour. The wine is passa- 

 bly good. This grape is very generally cultivated in all vine-yards, 

 and has one advantage attending it, that it is not subject to the Blight, 

 or barrenness of the blossom, 



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