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TH E M IL L E R ’S BURGUNDY GRAPE.
Miller’s Burgundy. FLort. Soc. Fruit Cat. no. 26.
The Black Cluster, or Munier Grape. Miller’s Diet.
Le Meunier. Chaptal, Traité sur le Vigne, vol. i.p . 169.
Vitis subhirsuta (acino nigro). Caspar Bauhin Pinax.
Vitis lanata. C. Steph. Proedium Rusticum.
Maurillon-Taconné...
Fromenté....................
Resseau.........................
of the French Vineyards.
Farineux noir ......... ..
Savagnien noir............
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This is one of the most ancient varieties of the
Grape. The two quotations cited above from
Bauhin’s Pinax, and Stephanus’s Prædium Rusticum,
are taken from Chaptal ; we have not been
able to find them ourselves.
The plant from which the drawing was taken
was presented to the Horticultural Society by the
late Sir Joseph Banks, who procured it from the
remains of an ancient vineyard at Torwortli, famous
for its chestnuts, and the seat of Lord Ducie. I t
was undoubtedly one of the sorts cultivated in that
ancient place.
I t is commonly grown in France as a wine-
grape; and is almost the only black kind which
is likely to be worth trying in this country for
the same purpose. I t has a very high flavour.