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THE HORSFORTH SEEDLING GRAPE.
The Rhodes’s Grape o f some Collections.
This Grape is said to have been raised by-
Mr. Appleby, Gardener to the Rev. J. A. Rhodes,
of Horsforth Hall, near Leeds, between the Black
Hamburgh and the “ Muscat.” We know nothing
of the accuracy of this statement of its origin;
but it has been exhibited at some of the shows
of fruit in Yorkshire, and the beauty of the bunch
was such, that the large silver medal of the Horticultural
Society was awarded to the Gardener
for his cultivation of it, in November 1828. It is
extremely like the Black Morocco, which is supposed
to be the same as what is called, near London,
Colonel Ansley’s Black Grape. The size of the
berries, and the fine appearance of the whole
fruit, render it a highly desirable variety.
The following notice of it is to be found in the
Gardener’s Magazine for October last:.
“ Sir,— I send you a specimen of the Rhodes’s
Grape, a seedling raised at Horsforth Hall, near
Leeds, a few years ago. It is, as you will see, a
fine large black Grape, but rather a shy bearer.
It is also a bad setter; the specimen sent was set
with Black Hamburgh. I do not consider the
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