On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 20:01:30 +0000, David Hill
wrote:

Just as a follow up, I checked with google on Raisin I should probably
have said "currant" but found this .....
" Corinthian raisins, are dried berries of the small, sweet, seedless
grape cultivar 'Black Corinth'"

I can't quote a source, but I understood 'currant' was a corruption of
'Corinth'.

Gardening on Wilts/Somerset border
on slightly alkaline clay underlying soil worked for many decades.