_Admiral_ (4). _Black Gibralter_ (4). _Black Hamburgh_ (2). _Black Portugal_ of some (4). _Black Teneriffe_ (4). _Blue Trollinger_ (4). _Bocksaugen_ (4). _Bommerer_ (4). _Brown Hamburgh_ (4). _Dutch Hamburgh_ (4). _Fleish Traube_ (4). _Frakenthaler_ (4). _Frankendale_ (4). _Frankenthaler gros noir_ (4). _Gelbholziger Trollinger_ (4). _Gibralter_ (4). _Hampton Court Vine_ (4, 8). _Hudler_ (4). _Languedoc_ (4). _Lugiana nera_ (4). _Malvasier_ of some (4). _Mohrendutte_ (4). _Pale Wooded Trollinger_ (4). _Purple Hamburgh_ (4). _Red Hamburgh_ (4, of some 2). _Richmond Villa Hamburgh_ (8). _Salisbury Violet_ (4). _Schwarzeblauer Trollinger_ (4). _Schwarzer Gutedel_ of some (4). _Schwarzwelscher_ (4). _Troller_ (4). _Trollinger_ (4). _Valentines_ (4). _Victoria_ (4). _Warner's_ (2, 4). WARNER'S BLACK HAMBURGH (2). _Warner's Black Hamburgh_ (4). _Warner's Hamburgh_ (8). _Weissholziger Trollinger_ (4). _Welscher_ (4). [Illustration: BLACK HAMBURG (Reduced Size)] Black Hamburg is a variety of _Vitis vinifera_, impossible to grow out of doors in eastern America, but illustrated and described here because it is one of the parents of many hybrids with American species and because it represents, in fruit characters at least, about all that is desirable in a good grape. Since it is a standard of excellence which American breeders of table grapes have long sought to attain, we may name its points of superiority over the table grapes now grown in our vineyards. 1st. Bunch and berry are large, well formed, and uniform. 2nd. The fruits have a higher sugar and solid content than most American grapes and keep better, ship better, make better wine and will make raisins. 3d. The flavor, to most palates, is richer, more delicate, and lacks the acidity of some American grapes and the foxiness of others. 4th. The pulp and skin of Black Hamburg are more tender than the varieties of the species of this country and the seeds are readily separated from the pulp. 5th. The berries do not shell from the stem readily. 6th. The vines are more compact in habit, make a shorter and stouter annual growth, and hence require less pruning and training. 7th. The fruit is borne in greater quantity, vine for vine or acre for acre. Added to the above qualities which make it desirable as a parent when crosses are made between the grapes of this country and _Vitis vinifera_, are comparative hardiness among its kind, a short seasonal cycle of vegetation giving early maturity to fruit, ability to stand more hardships than most of its species, and especially ability to mature its fruit with as small amount of solar heat as any of its species. Its weaknesses when planted out of doors in eastern America are those of its species, which wholly prevent its successful cultivation in the vineyards of this region and make it of interest and value only in breeding and as an ideal toward which to breed.