On two new Varieties of Grape. 



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summer, become beautifully variegated, with red and yellow, 

 in autumn, whenever the plant grows in a very dry soil, or 

 in a pot. It is a very hardy and productive variety, and 

 bears well in the open air ; and in moderately warm situa- 

 tions, it will ripen sufficiently well to afford a very palatable 

 fruit at this season. 



I cannot discover any thing in the character of this Grape, 

 which renders it better calculated, than many others, for 

 being long preserved ; for its skin is very thin, and it is re- 

 markably juicv ; and I am not quite satisfied that the few 

 bunches 1 have possessed, having remained so long sound, 

 may not be in part, at least accidental. I intended to sen^i 

 some of its variegated leaves with the bunch ; but I unfor- 

 tunately placed them in a book in a damp room, where they 

 became mouldy ; and I can send only a single leaf, which 

 was accidentally preserved in my pocket-book. The bunch 

 I send was gathered upon the 10th of October. 



This variety sprang from a seed of the White Chasselas, 

 and the pollen of the Aleppo Grape ; which readily variegates 

 the leaves and fruit of the offspring of any White Grape.* 



I send, as you request, a few cuttings of the plant which 

 afforded the small blue Grapes, with white stripes, which you 

 received from me in the antumn. The same seedling plant 

 bears some bunches of which the berries are black, striped 

 with white; others of which the berries, like those you re- 

 ceived, are pale blue, striped with white, each presenting 

 some colourless berries, and other bunches which are per- 

 fectly colourless. I believe it will be found to ripen in the 

 open air nearly as well as any Grape we possess, upon plants 

 * Mr. Knight has named this Grape the Variegated Chasselas. 



