Of TREES, SHRUBS, PLANTS, FLOWERS, and FRUITS. tz 3 
tumn, bruife them t# feparate the feeds, and may be 
fowed in any bed or border, raked or covered in with 
earth, half an inch deep; and when the plants are of 
three or four, to five or fix inches growth, in the end of 
fummer, or in autumn or fpring, tranfplant them in a. 
nurfery to obtain ftrength. 
Vitis, VINE, or GRAPE VINE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Pentandria Monogynia, 
Five Males , One Female ; 
Or Plants with Herm. Flowers, having five Stamina, or' 
Male Fructifications, and one Pifiillum, Or Female. 
THE Vitis affords feveraT hardy fpecies, moflly 
of long, trailing, climbing,, fhrubby growth, fome moft 
valuable for their fruit, others for variety; but for the 
former, one fpecies in particular, the Common Vine, 
furnifhing many fine varieties, is of great eftimation 
and value to rank in the colleftionof fruit-trees, for the 
production of their moft excellent fruit the Grape ; are 
all of the deciduous tribe, grow with very long flexible 
branches and ftioots, requiring fupport of walls. Sec. by 
which they afeend or extend to a confiderable height 
or length; producing numerous long, trailing, jointed 
fhoots, annually, extending many feet in one fummer; 
garnifhed at the joints with large, Ample, lobated 
leaves, divided into three or five lobes, and in fome pin¬ 
nated; attended by oppofite climbing tendrils or clafp- 
ers, and fmall clufters of minute, greenifh, quinquepe- 
talous flowers at the eyes of the fame year’s fhoots; 
having to each flower a fmall quinquedented cup, five 
fmall deciduous petals, containing five fhort ftamina, 
an oval germen, no ftyle, only an obtufe ftigma; and 
each germen grows a roundifh and oval, unilocular, 
five-ieeded berry; many together in oblong cluf- 
tered bunches, black, white, red, &c. ripening in au¬ 
tumn, from july to October, rich and delicious; the 
feed feldorn ufed for fowing, as the plants propagate 
plentifully by layers and cuttings. 
The principal Species are— 
1 . Vitis vinifiera —(Wine-bearing Vitis) or Com¬ 
mon Vine, or Grape-Vine. 
A trading-climbing deciduous tree, extending twen¬ 
ty feet length, or more—the leaves (large ) lobated, of 
three or five lobes, finuated, naked; and flowers fuc- 
ceeded by large bunches of roundifh and oval berries, 
or Grapes, black, white, red, &c. rich and delicious 
for eating and making wine.—Native of the four quar¬ 
ters of the world, in warm, temperate parts. (Dry, 
rich, or any common fertile fioil.) 
Varieties ofi the Fruit. 
Early Black July Grape—fmall, roundifh, 
black berries, in clofe fhort bunches; 
ripe fiometimes in the end ofi July, or mofily 
in the beginning or middle ofi Augujl. 
Early Black Sweet-water Grape—fmall, 
roundifh black berries, in clofe fhort 
bunches; fweet juice; ripe the beginning 
or middle, to the end of Augujl, IAc. 
Early White Sweet-water Grape—larger, 
round, whitifh-green berries; often ir¬ 
regular in fize, growing in oblongifh 
bunches; fweet juice; beginning and 
noddle, to the end of Augujl. 
Black Mufcadine Grape—miadie-fize, 
round, blackifh berries in Iongifh bunch¬ 
es; rich juice; September. 
White Mufcadine Grape—middle-fize, 
round, whitifh berries, in long loofe 
bunches; fweet and rich flavoured; end 
of Augujl and September. 
Royal White Mufcadine—larger round 
berries, whitifh-amber-coloured, grow¬ 
ing in large oblong bunches, dividing 
above into fide-fhoulders; moft rich and 
excellent; ripening in September. 
Black duller Grape—fmall, roundifh- 
oval, black berries, growing in very 
clofe, fhort, roundifh bunches; juicy and 
rich; the tree remarkable in its hoary 
downy leaves; fruit ripe in September. 
Frankindal Grape—large, round whitifit 
berries, in large oblong bunches; rich 
and fomewhat mufky-flowered; ripe in 
September. 
Red Chaflelas Grape—largifh round ber¬ 
ries, growing in obloivg bunches, of a 
dark-red colour; middle of September. 
White Chaflelas Grape; September and Oc¬ 
tober. s 
Black Burgundy Grape—largifh oval ber¬ 
ries, black-red colour, growing in round- 
ifh-oblong bunches, more valuable for 
making wine than for the- table; ripe in 
September. 
Black Corinth Grape—fmaller, roundifh, 
deep-black berries, in fhort bunches; 
fweet juice; end of September and in Oc¬ 
tober: 
Black Frontignac Grape—largifh, round, 
black berries, in fhortifh bunches; very- 
rich fweet juice; end of September ami 
in October. 
Grifly, or Red Frontignac Grape—large 
round berries, of a brick-red colour, in 
longer bunches; September and October. 
White Frontignac Grape—large, round, 
whitiih 
