VARIOUS KINDS OF RAISINS.

_a._ _Sun-dried_ raisins.

1. _Muscatels_, or Muscats, from Malaga or California. The former, also

known at various periods as “Solis,” or sun-dried, or “great raisins,”

on account of their very superior qualities.

2. _Currants_, raisins made of the small currant grape, originally from

Corinth.

3. _Belvideres_, raisins from Calabria, in Italy, and from the Islands

of Lipari and Pantellaria, near Sicily.

4. _Black Smyrna_, properly only a dried grape, not exported to this

country.

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