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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.

5. California Malagas, made from the Malaga grape.

6. California sun-dried Sultanas, made from the Sultana grapes in this State. And, lastly,—

7. Seedless Muscatels, made in California, and being the smallest Muscats separated from the larger seed-bearing berries.

8. Thompson Seedless, a new, very promising raisin now being produced in this country from vines imported originally from Constantinople, producing seedless grapes, slightly larger than the Sultanas.

9. Dried grapes of any description, especially wine grapes, exported from this and Mediterranean countries for wine-making to France, England and the Eastern States.

b. Dipped raisins.

10. Lexias, or Dipped Muscatels, from Denia, Valencia, Alicante, in Spain.

11. California Dipped, especially second-crop Muscatels. Proper name not yet established.

12. Smyrnas, which again may be either Sultanas, Chesmes or Elemês. The first from the Sultana grape, the two latter, the “red” grapes, from Dipped Muscatels.

13. Faros, from Algarve, in Portugal, not known in this country.

c. Dried in the shade.

14. Huasco raisin, from Chile. To this list might be added many more varieties of less importance.