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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, May 24, 1859. 
—Bunclies large, tapering, and well shouldered. Berries 
large, roundish-oval, and varying in size. Skin thin, 
very black, covered with a blue bloom. Flesh tender, 
very juicy, sweet, and with a fine sprightly flavour. 
This is a very fine late grape, and requires to be grown 
in a house with stove heat. 
White Chasselas. See Royal Muscadine. 
White Constantia. See White Frontignan. 
White Corinth ( White Kishmish; Stoneless Round- 
berried; Corinthe Rlane). — Bunches small, shouldered, 
and loose. Berries very small. Skin yellowish-white, 
changing to amber, covered with white bloom. Flesh 
very juicy, sub-acid and with a refreshing flavour. The 
seeds are entirely wanting. Of no value. 
White Cucumber. See Cornichon Rlane. 
White Frontignan ( White Constantia; Nepean’s 
Constantia; Muscat Rlane; Moscatel Commun; Raisin 
de Frontignan ; Weisser Muslcateller). —Bunches large, 
long, cylindrical, and compact, without shoulders. Ber¬ 
ries medium sized, round. Skin dull greenish-white, or 
yellow, covered with thin grey bloom. Flesh rather firm, 
juicy, sugary, and very rich, with a fine Muscat flavour. 
This will ripen either in a cool or waj:m vinery, but is 
worthy of the most favourable situation in which it can 
be grown. The vine is an abundant bearer, and forces 
well. 
White Hamburgh. See White Lisbon. 
White Kishmish. See White Corinth. 
White Lisbon {White Hamburgh; White Portugal; 
White Raisin). —Bunches large and loose. Berries oval. 
Skin greenish-white. Flesh firm and crackling, not very 
juicy, but with a sweet and refreshing flavour. 
It is this grape which is so largely imported from 
Portugal during the autumn and winter months, and sold 
in the fruiterers’ and, grocers’ shops under the name of 
Portugal Grapes. 
White Melier. See Farly White Malvasia. 
White Muscadine. See Royal Muscadine. 
White Nice. —Bunches very large and loose, with 
several shoulders. Berries medium sized, round, and 
hanging loosely on the bunches. Skin thin, but tough, 
and membranous ; greenish-white, becoming pale amber 
coloured as it ripens. Flesh firm and sweet. Bunches 
of this variety have been grown to weigh 18 lbs. The 
leaves are very downy underneath. 
White Portugal. See White Lisbon. 
White Raisin. See White Lisbon. 
White Rissling (Weisser Riessling). —Bunches small, 
short, and compact, scarcely, if at all, shouldered. Ber¬ 
ries round, or somewhat oblate. Skin thin, greenish- 
white, and, when highly ripened, sometimes with a 
reddish tinge. Flesh tender, fleshy, and juicy, with a 
sweet and agreeably aromatic flavour. 
This may be grown either in a cool vinery, or against 
a wall in the open air. The vine is a great bearer, and is 
very extensively grown in the vineyards of the Rhine 
and Moselle. 
White Romain ( Muscat Romain). — Bunches below 
medium size, and rather closely set. Berries medium 
sized, oval. Skin thin, and so transparent that the seeds 
can be seen through it; yellowish white, and with a thin 
bloom. Flesh tender, very juicy, and sweet. An excel¬ 
lent early grape. The wood is very short-jointed, and the 
vine forms a small bush ; it is well suited for pot culture. 
Mr. Rivers introduced this variety, expecting it to be 
a Muscat; but when it fruited it was found not to be so, 
and he, therefore, adopted the present name. 
White Sweetwater ( Stillward’s Sweetwater; Dutch 
Sweetwater; Perle Rlanche). — Bunches rather above 
medium size, shouldered, and very loose, containing many 
ba dly-developed berries. Berries large and round. Skin 
thi n and transparent, exhibiting the veins of the flesh; 
white, and covered with a thin bloom, and -when highly 
ripened streaked with traces of russet. Flesh tender, 
very juicy, sweet, and with a fine delicate flavour. 
A well-known and excellent early grape, whose greatest 
fault is the irregularity with which its bunches are set. 
There is another Sweetwater, called, by the Dutch, Water- 
zoet Witte, which is a very inferior variety to this. 
White Tokay. —Bunches rather large and compact, 
from nine inches to a foot long, and broad-shouldered. 
Berries large and oval. Skin thin, pale coloured, but 
assuming an amber colour at maturity. Flesh tender 
and juicy, with a rich flavour. This, in the size of the 
bunch and form and size of the berries, resembles Muscat 
of Alexandria; but the bunches are much more compact, 
and the fruit has not the slightest trace of the Muscat 
flavour. 
Wilmot’s Hamburgh. See Dutch Hamburgh. 
Worksop Manor. See Rlach Damascus. 
Zante. See Rlach Corinth. 
LIST OF SELECT GRAPES. 
For small establishments those marked # should be chosen. 
I. EOR WALLS IN THE OPEN AIR. 
Muscats. 
♦Early Black Muscat 
Early Saumur Muscat 
July Muscat 
♦Muscat St. Laurent 
Not Muscats. 
Black July 
II. EOR COOL 
Muscats. 
Black Frontignan 
Chasselas Musque 
♦Early Black Muscat 
Early Saumur Muscat 
July Muscat 
♦Madeira Muscat 
♦Muscat St. Laurent 
♦Early Malingre 
Early White Malvasia 
♦Esperione 
♦Miller’s Burgundy 
Pitmaston White Cluster 
Purple Fontainbleau 
♦Royal Muscadine 
VINERIES. 
Not Muscats. 
♦Black Champion 
♦Black Hamburgh 
Black Prince 
♦Chasselas Vibert 
Early White Malvasia 
* Golden Hamburgh 
Pitmaston White Cluster 
♦Royal Muscadine 
♦White Romain 
III. FOR POTS IN ORCHARD-HOUSES. 
Muscats. 
August Muscat 
Early Saumur Muscat 
♦July Muscat 
♦Muscat St. Laurent 
♦Sarbelle Muscat 
Not Muscats. 
Chaptal 
IV. FOR FORCING 
Muscats. 
♦Chasselas Musque 
Muscat Hamburgh 
Purple Constantia 
Red Frontignan 
♦White Frontignan 
Not Muscats. 
Black Champion 
V. FOR FORCING 
Muscats. 
Bovrood Muscat 
Canon Hall Muscat 
♦Muscat of Alexandria 
Not Muscats. 
♦Barbarossa 
(To be continued.) 
♦Cambridge Botanic Garden 
♦Chasselas Vibert 
♦Esperione 
Early White Malvasia 
Prolific Sweetwater 
♦Purple Fontainbleau 
♦Royal Muscadine 
♦White Romain 
FOR EARLY CROPS. 
♦Black Hamburgh 
Black Prince 
♦Early Chasselas 
Golden Hamburgh 
♦Royal Muscadine 
♦Trentham Black 
White Sweetwater 
FOR LATE CROPS. 
Black Damascus 
Kempsey Alicante 
*Lady Downe’s Seedling 
*Trebbiano 
*West’s St. Peter’s 
NOTES ON APPLES AND PEARS. 
Wuere is the nobleman, or country gentleman, who has on 
his premises a fruit-room, that would not almost glory to see 
it teeming with those fruits which are natives of our own 
