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making of new borders, and to supply young vines for planting three 

 new vineries, and amongst those plants were two of-' Wilmot's New 

 Black Hamburgh." Names were not attached to the vines when 

 planted, and now the gardener, who has had the management of 

 them for seven or eight years, cannot distinguish Wilmot's from the 

 common Black Hamburgh. 



2. White Muscat of Alexandria. 



Synonyms, according to Horticultural Society's Catalogue : 

 Alexandrian Frontignan, Muscat of Jerusalem, Tottenham- 

 Park Muscat, Lunel, White Tokay (of some), White Mus- 

 cat of Lunel, Malaga, Passe-Musquee, White Passe-Mus- 

 qu^e, Passe-longue Musquee, Muscat Eschcolota, Zebibo 

 of Sicily. 

 Bunch large and long, generally having wide- spreading shoulders ; 

 berry very large, oval; skin thick, yellowish when quite ripe; pulp 

 rather fleshy, exquisitely flavoured ; leaves large, deeply lobed and 

 acutely serrated ; young wood strong, very firm when properly 

 matured. 



The name of White Tokay is familiarly applied to this variety in 

 the north of England, and my belief is that they are one and the 

 same sort, notwithstanding a different Grape having been lately ex- 

 hibited at the Horticultural Society's rooms under the name of Tokay. 

 Judging from the notice of that Grape in the Gardeners'' Chronicle, 

 it is very likely to have been a firm-fleshed, late-keeping, but little 

 cultivated sort, indiscriminately called White Hamburgh or White 

 Raisin. Muscat Eschcolota, or EschcoUata, is a catchpenny name 

 given to the White Muscat by a dealer not inaptly named " Money," 

 who, under the plea that the fruit would ripen against open walls, 

 managed to convert his pretended new variety into a goodly number 

 of guineas. I'he Tottenham-Park Muscat was sent out many years 

 ago as a distinct sort, said to have been raised from seed in the Mar- 

 quis of Ailesbury's garden; but if a seedling, it has been found not to 

 diff'er from its parent. I have also seen this Grape bearing the names 

 of Athol's Nonsuch and Thome's House Tokay. 



This admirable kind is generally acknowledged to have no equal; 

 and it would doubtless be so universally cultivated as to exclude most 

 others, only that a high temperature is absolutely necessary for its 

 perfect maturation. It is an excellent sort for late keeping, provided 

 it is well ripened early in autumn. I have frequently cut fruit in 

 December which was eatable in the beginning of August. 



3. Ca7ion-Hall Muscat. 



Bunch longer and generally less broadly shouldered than the pre- 

 ceding sort ; berry very large, oval, but more blunt at the ends than 

 that of the White Muscat; skin thick, dull white, acquiring a yel- 

 lowish tinge when thoroughl)^ ripe ; pulp firm, partaking of the 

 peculiar flavour of the White Muscat, although not equally so to 

 that sort. 



In all respects there is a great resemblance between this Grape 

 and its probable parent — the White Muscat ; the principal diff"erences 

 being in the Canon Hall having larger and more obtuse berries, and 



