180 THE OECHAED AZS^D FEUIT GAEDEK. 



ripen its fruit out of doors under favourable circum- 

 stances. Tlie bunches are rather long, and the grapes 

 of a good size, when well thinned out. The flesh is 

 white, sweet, juicy, and nice-flavoured; and wdien the 

 grape is pulled from the stalk, a red receptacle, covered 

 wdth the white flesh, is left. The seeds are numerous 

 and^arge, the leaves are broad, thick, long in the stalk, 

 tinged with red, not deeply cleft, broadly serrated, and 

 changing in autumn to pale red and purple. The vine 

 is a great bearer, and the grapes colour well. 



The Black Cluster is quite one of the best out-of- 

 doors grapes we have, — so good that it has been stated 

 that it might be grown with us out of doors for wine. 

 It is the real Burgundy. In Burgundy it is highly es 

 teemed for wine ; it is extensively grown for that purjDOse 

 on the Ehine and Moselle, and is much used for cham 

 pagne. The bunches are small, cylindrical, and com 

 pact; the grapes round, or a little oval, thin in the 

 skin, blue-black, covered with bloom, juicy, sweet, and 

 rich in flavour. It ripens well against a wall in the 

 open air. This is better than Miller's Burgundy (which 

 has downy leaves), the grapes of which are also not so 

 large. 



The Pitmaston White Cluster is rather larger than 

 the Black Cluster, compact in the bunch, and shouldered 

 it ripens on a south wall earlier than the Sweetw^ater 

 the fruit is round, a little flattened at the top, amber 

 coloured when ripe, rather bronzed, with russet next the 

 sun, and pleasant in flavour. 



Among these, perhaps the best kinds to select are the 

 Esperione, Black Cluster, Chasselas, Black Hamburgh 

 Black Prince, and Sweetwater, on walls w^hich are prett 

 well placed ; and in less favourable localities try th 

 White Cluster, or White Chasselas. 



