A Review of Fifty hinds of Grapes. 



No. IX. Red Muscadel. 

 Of this kind Mr. Speechly had one principal Vine. I 

 neversaw the bunches so large as he has stated. The flavour 

 is a little better than that of the Red Syracuse, and the skin 

 is a little thinner. The rudiments of the style adhere to the 

 oval ends of the berries, and leave a rough spot which re- 

 tains humidity, whereby decomposition takes place sooner in 

 this Grape than in the Red Syracuse, No. V. 



No. X. White Grape from Alcobaca. 

 This was cultivated in pots, and the White Lombardy by 

 the side of it ; they were both alike, and both put out of this 

 collection some time before 1801. 



No. XI. White Frontignac. 

 This is a good and well known Grape. 



No. XII. Grizzly Frontignac. 



Is also well known. 



No. XIII. Black or Purple Frontignac. 



This is the best and most prolific Grape that I know ; it 

 must be kept very long after maturity before it becomes 

 black, and then its exquisitely rich flavour is gone ; the skin 

 of the berries becomes tough, and the juice vapid. Mr. 

 Speechly always called this Grape the Purple Constantia, 

 both before and after the publication of his Vine-book. He 

 obtained it and the White Constantia from the Cape of 

 Good Hope; and although he notices the White Constantia 

 at page 134, yet he always said that it was no other than the 



