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IV. On an early Variety of Grape from Amiens. In a Letter 

 to the Secretary. By Thomas Andrew Knight, Esq. 

 F.R.S. $c. President. 



Read March 3, 1812. 



My dear Sir, 



I have addressed to you a few cuttings of the Vine, which 

 produced the white or pale yellow Grape you received from 

 me in the last autumn. 



I was indebted, some years ago, for a plant of this variety, 

 to Mr. Brogden, of Park-street, who informed me that one 

 of his friends had seen the fruit of it ripe in July, in the open 

 air, at Amiens, during the late peace. The wood and foliage, 

 and the whole habit of the plant, so closely resembled those 

 of the White Chasselas, that I did not doubt of its identity 

 with that variety; and I attributed its early maturity, at 

 Amiens, to some incidental advantages of soil and situation. 

 The form of the bunches, in the last spring, however, unde- 

 ceived me ; and I subsequently found the fruit to be essen- 

 tially different. Its blossom appears to be much more hardy 

 than that of the Sweetwater, or White Chasselas, or indeed 

 than that of almost any other Grape ; for scarcely a single one 

 proved abortive last spring, under very unfavourable circum- 

 stances. It appears, also, to be a very early Grape, and to 

 be, on account of the hardiness of its blossom, exceedingly 

 well calculated for very early pruning ; though, as I have 

 only seen the fruit upon the extremity of a long annual 



