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occasionally absent from the larger berries. This variety is ? 
very strong grower, and is raised in great perfection about 
Boston. It will hang a long time on the vines. 
Mr. Thompson considers the Malaga grape (brought to this 
country in jars,) as synonymous. It is picked so early for im- 
portation as to have little flavour. 
The Cannon-Hall Muscat, an English seedling, closely re- 
sembles this grape, but the flesh is firmer, the skin yellower, and 
it is not quite so rich in flavour. It also sets rather badly, re- 
quiring to be fertilized by hand with the pollen of some other 
sort. 
25. White Frontignan. Lind. Thomp. 
"White Constantia. 
White Frontniac. 
Nepean’s Constantia. 
Muscat Blanc. 
Raisin de Frontignan. 
Muscat Blanc de Jura. 
Moschata Bianca. 
Moscado Bianco. 
Moscatel Commun. 
Muscateller. 
Wiesser Muscateller. 
Weisse Muscaten Traube. 
The White Frontignan is a very favourite grape, as the many 
names, quoted above, by which it is known in various parts of 
Europe, sufficiently prove. Its hardy habit, uniform productive- 
ness in the vinery, and most luscious flavour, make it everywhere 
esteemed. 
Bunches of medium size, or pretty long, and without shoul- 
ders. Berries middle sized, round, rather thickly set. Skin 
thin, dull white or yellow, covered with a thin bloom. Flesh 
tender, with a rich, perfumed, musky flavour. 
26. White Sweetwater. Thomp. 
Early White Muscadine. Dutch Sweetwater 
White Muscadine, {of Lind.) Chasselas Precoce. 
Early Sweetwater. Chasselas Royal. 
Stillward’s Sweetwater. Water Zoete Blanc. 
This grape is better known, and more commonly cultivated 
than any other in this country, although it is inferiour to the 
Royal Muscadine. It differs from the latter in having weaker 
wood, and open, loose bunches of a paler colour. 
Bunches middle sized, loose or open, usually with many 
small imperfect berries, shouldered. Berries of the middle size, 
round. Skin thin, clear watery green, rarely becoming amber 
except very fully exposed to the sun. Flesh crisp, watery, 
sweet, but not high flavoured. Ripens in the open air from the 
20th to the last of August — a fortnight earlier than the Royal 
Muscadine. 
27. White Tokay. Thomp. 
Genuine Tokay. Lind. Speech. Gray Tokay ? 
Tokai blanc. 
This is the fruit from which the delicious Tokay wine of 
