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ON THE MANAGEMENT 
' principally the following: Firft, afuperiority in fize, both in the 
bunch and the berry j fecondly, a fuper-excellency in flavour, 
and a delicacy in the ikin and flefli of the fruit. The form of 
the bunch, and the length of the foot-flialk of the fruit, are alfo 
valuable objedls, and ought to be confidered as advantages, 
clofe-growing grapes, which always have fhort foot-ftalks, 
being fubjed: to many misfortunes. 
The advantages to be gained by this method of proceeding 
being thus fliewn and difplayed, I lhall beg leave to make a 
few obfervations on the manner of reducing it into pradice. 
And the hints once given, it will be at the option of perfons of 
tafte and genius to run the parallel agreeably to their own 
fancies. 
All the five forts of Frontinac grapes are proper to add an 
excellency of flavour to other kinds; but there is a fuperior 
richnefs in the blacky blucy and Frontinacs, and they do 
not partake fo much of the fhrong mufcat flavour as the white 
and grizzly do. But it mufl: be confidered, that the blue Fron- 
tinac grows clofe upon the bunch, and, therefore, is only pro- 
per to be coupled with the loofe-growing kinds that have long 
foot-ftalks. The white Mufcat of Alexandria produces large 
loofe-growing bunches, and the berries being very large and 
wxll flavoured, it mufl: be a proper kind to be joined with 
many other forts. There is a peculiar delicacy in the fleih of 
the white Sweetwater : It is alfo a remarkably thin-fkinn’d 
grape. 
