194 METHOD OF PRODUCT NG NEW AND "FARLY FRUITS. 



troducins^ the farina into the blossom of another apple, than 

 by sowinor their own seeds ; I sent a new variety (the Down- 

 ton pippin) which was thus obtained fro;n the farina of the 

 p:olden pippin, to the Horticultural Society, last year, but 

 tliose specimens afforded but a very unfavourable sample of 

 it ; for the season, and the situation in which the fruit 

 ripened, w^ere very cold, and almost every leaf of the trees 

 had been eaten oif by insects. In a favourable season and 

 situation it will, I believe, "be found little, if at all, inferior 

 to the i;;olden|)ippin, when first taken from the tree; but it 

 is a good deal earlier, and probably cannot be preserved so 

 long. 

 Grape. I proceed -to experiments on the grape ; which, though 



less successful than those on the apple, in the production of 

 good varieties, are not less favourable to the preceding con- 

 Vinery with- elusions. A vinery in which no fires are made during the 

 les. winter, affords to the vine a climate similar to that which the 



southern parts of Siberia afford to the apple, or crab tree : 

 in it a similarly extensive variation of temperature takes 

 place, and the sudden transition from great comj>aratlve cold 

 to excessive heat is productive of the same rapid progress in 

 the growth of tlie plants, and advancement of the fruit to 

 Black cluster maturity. My first attempt was to combine the hardiness 

 united with the of the blossom of the black cluster, or Burgundy grape, 

 Sweetwater, ^y-^|^ the large berry and early maturity of the true sweet- 

 water*. The seedling plants produced fruit in my vinery 

 at three or four months old, and the fruit of some of them 

 was very early ; but the bunches were short, and ill formed, 

 and the berries much smaller than those of the sweetwater, 

 and the blossoms did not set by any means so well as I had 

 hoped, 

 and with the Substituting tlje white chasselas for the sweetwater, 1 ob- 

 tained several varieties, whose blossoms appear perfectly 

 hardy, and capable of setting well in the open air; and the 

 fruit of some of them is ripening a good deal earlier in the 

 present year than that of either of the parent plants. The 

 beriies, however, are smaller than those of the chasselas, 

 and with less tender and delicate skins : and, though not 



• This grape is often confounded by gardener?, hoih with the white 

 chasselas and white jnuscadine. 



without 



chasselas. 



