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Rh The green Rochelle. The bunch of this variety is of a middling size; the berries have a soft skin, and are close; even at its highest degree of maturity, it has an acid sweetish taste which is not agreeable. It almost always produces with a kind of abundance, and is reputed very advantageous for the manufacture of brandy. The leaf, divided into two principal lobes, besides two semilobes, is very thick; its upper surface is darkish green, its under surface ash coloured, and covered with a very short down; the wood is yellow, and closely knotted; the petiole, red, short, and round, is terminated by five glands, the middle one much larger than the others.

The Rochelle blonde; or fair Rochelle, which seems to be a degeneration of the preceding, has only two lobes in the upper part of the leaf; the lower part is entire; the colour of its foliage, as well as of its fruit, is of a much lighter green.

The large muscadet. There are two kinds of the muscadet enfumé, or smoked; the large, and small; the leaf of the first has a large petiole, which parts into five glands; the upper surface is of a dark, and the under of a whitish green, but without down; all its edge is lightly indented, but there is only one deep division on the right side; the stalk of the bunch is not strong; the