dark purple, and covered with a thick blue bloom. Pulp fleshy, juicy, and well-flavoured. Ripens in a south-eastern aspect about the middle of October.

This is a very fine grape, and nearly, if not quite, equal to the Black Hamburgh.

3. ESPERIONE. Bunches and berries closely resemble in size and shape, the Black Hamburgh. Skin nearly black, and covered with a blue bloom. The pulp, which adheres to the skin, is pleasant and well-flavoured. The leaves die upon the vine of a rich orange hue.

The Esperione Vine is very hardy, extremely prolific, and ripens its fruit perfectly in any season, however unfavourable.

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4. BLACK MUSCADINE. Bunches mediumsized, and rather long. Berries round. black, and covered with a very thick blue bloom, which gives the bunches a beautiful appearance. Pulp juicy, and when well ripened, of a good flavour.

This is a very prolific bearer, but it requires a good aspect to ripen it perfectly.

5. MILLER'S BURGUNDY. Bunches short, thick, and small. Berries small, rather oval, black, and grow very close on the bunches. Skin rather thin, and covered with a blue bloom. Pulp juicy, very sweet, and highflavoured.

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This is a very hardy and prolific grape, and ripens perfectly in any season. Its leaves, which are very thick, distinguish it from every other sort, being covered on both sides with a hoary down, which, when they are young, is nearly white; hence it is called the Miller's Grape.

6. CLARET GRAPE. Bunches small and thick. Berries black, small, rather oval, and closely set. Skin rather thick, and generally covered with a bluish bloom. Pulp juicy. Juice of a blood red colour, but of a harsh taste unless perfectly ripened.

It requires a good aspect.

This is a very fine wine grape. Early in the summer, its leaves change to a russet red, and die in the autumn, of a deep purple blood colour.

7. BLACK FRONTIGNAN. Bunches small. Berries round, small, and thickly set. Skin black, and covered with a light blue or violet bloom. Pulp juicy, and of a rich vinous musky flavour.

8. GRIZZLY FRONTIGNAN. Bunches mediumsized with small shoulders. Berries round, and of a light brown colour, intermixed with red and yellow. The juice is exceedingly rich, and possesses a high musky perfumed flavour.

9. WHITE FRONTIGNAN. Bunches long, and occasionally shouldered. Berries round, rather

large, pretty closely set, of a dull greenish yellow, and covered with a whitish powdery bloom. Pulp juicy, sweet, very rich, with an exquisite musky flavour.

The flavour of this and the two preceding grapes is so extremely delicious, that no good vine wall should be without them. They ripen well when the aspect is good, and the soil very dry; but being thin-skinned, and constitutionally disposed to decay after they become fully ripe, they cannot be kept long on the vine; particularly if the wall against which they are growing, be destitute of a projecting coping.

10. WHITE MUSCADINE. Bunches middlesized, shouldered, and handsomely formed. Berries round, and rather large. Skin thin, and if exposed to the direct rays of the sun, acquires, when fully ripe, a yellowish brown colour. Pulp juicy, rich, and well flavoured.

This is an exceedingly fine grape, and a prolific bearer; and from its hardy nature, and the certainty with which it ripens in any season, it may be considered as the best white grape that can be grown on open walls.

11. MALMSEY MUSCADINE. This resembles the preceding, except that the berries are smaller, and the bunches not so regularly formed; but the juice is sweeter, and possesses a higher flavour.

12. WHITE SWEETWATER.

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sized. Berries large, round, and grow close upon the bunches. Skin thin, and when exposed to the sun, and fully ripe, pretty thickly set with spots of a light russet colour. Pulp very juicy and luscious.

This is a delicious grape, but owing to its tenderness when in blossom, the berries set very unevenly on the bunches.

If it be desired to have a very early sort, to the preceding may be added, the Early Black July, which, though the bunches and berries are small, and the latter, in general, unevenly set, is a very sweet, and also a well-flavoured grape.

It would be easy to increase this catalogue numerically, if it were necessary, but such a course, if adopted, would only bewilder the cultivator, and render it a difficult matter for him to choose those sorts which experience has proved, are most appropriately adapted for culture on open walls. The sorts here enumerated, embrace almost every variation in flavour, colour, and size of berry, that can be perfectly ripened in the open air.