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THE GRAPE. 
worthy of cultivation in gardens. Indeed, the most experience! 
gardeners are satisfied with half a dozen of the best sorts for 
their vineries, and the sorts universally admired are the Black 
Hamburgh, Black Prince, White Muscadine, and Muscat of 
Alexandria. We will describe all the finest foreign grapes that 
have been introduced, and for the sake of simplifying their ar- 
rangement, shall divide them into three classes ; 1st, those with 
dark red, purple or black berries ; 2d, those with white or yellow 
berries ; 3d, those with light red, rose-coloured, gray, or striped 
berries. 
CLASS I. 
GRAPES WITH DARK RED, PURPLE OR BLACK BERRIES. 
1. Black Cluster. Thomp. 
Black Morillon. Lind. 
Auverne. 
Auverna. 
Pineau. 
True Burgundy. 
Small Black Cluster. SpeecTily. 
Black Burgundy. 
Early Black. 
I Miller. 
Morillon noir. 
Eranc Pineau. 
Auvernes Rouge, 
Yrai Auvernas. 
Raisin de Bourgne. J 
Burgunder. 
Rother. 
Sckwarzer. 
of the 
French. 
( of the 
Germans. 
This excellent hardy grape is the true Burgundy grape so 
highly valued for wine in France. It is readily distinguished 
from Miller’s Burgundy, by the absence of the down on its 
leaves, which peculiarly distinguishes that sort. The fruit is 
very sweet and excellent, and the hardiness of the vine renders 
it one of the best varieties for the open air in this climate. 
Bunches small, compact, (i.e. berries closely set). Berries 
middle sized, roundish-oval. Skin deep black. Juice sweet 
and good. Bipens in the open air about the 20th of September. 
Thompson gives more than 40 synonymes to this grape. 
2. Black Frontignan. Thomp. 
Muscat Noir. 
Sir William Romley’s Black. 
Muscat Noir Ordinaire. 
Purple Frontignan. 
Black Frontignac. 
Purple Constantia. 
Black Constantia {of some). 
Bourdales des Hautes Pyrenees 
Muscat Noir de Jura. 
An excellent grape for the vinery, originally from the town 
of Frontignan, in France, where it and other similar sorts are 
largely cultivated for making the Muscadine or Frontignan 
wine. 
ac. to 
’ Thomp. 
