FECRUARV. 



THE STOCKWOOD GOLDEN HAMBURGH GRAPE. 



(Plate 110.) 



We are indebted to Mr. Busby, gardener to J. Crawley, Esq., 

 Stockwood Park, Beds, for having raised from seed this valuable 

 acquisition to our Jist of really useful Grapes. Its immediate 

 parent, we understand, was the Black Hamburgh, some blooms of 

 which Mr. Busby fertilised with pollen from the Dutch Sweet- 

 water, and tlie result produced has been the hybrid in question, 

 which approximates to the Hamburgh both in size of bunch and 

 shape, and also in size of berry, but instead of being black it is of 

 a white colour, which merges into a rich amber as the berries 

 attain full maturity. Our plate, by Mr. Andrews, so well 

 represents the appearance of Mr. Busby's Grape that we need not 

 more particularly notice it in this respect. The flesh is moderately 

 firm, with a cool refreshing juice, slightly vinous, more so than 

 either the Sweetwater or the Muscadine, but in this respect 

 inferior to the Hamburgh. As our plate attests, it is a very 

 handsome showy Grape as regards both bunch and berry, and wc 

 are informed that it sets freely, forming a well filled up bunch, 

 and that the Vine has a vigorous habit of growth — two excellent 

 qualifications for a forcing Grape. The Sweetwater and Muscadine, 

 the only two white Grapes we had which would bear forcing with 

 the Hamburgh, are botlrvery inferior to that variety as regards 

 productiveness and appearance, and therefore a white Grape equal 

 to that deservedly popular kind was much desired. Mr. Busby's 

 Grape ripens with the Hamburgh, and we therefore think he has 

 supplied us with the desideratum we have been so long seeking 

 for. The berries, he tells us, never burst, and the footstalks are 

 not liable either to shrivel or shank. He also adds that it is very 

 hardy in constitution — so much so, indeed, that it will succeed 

 even in a.greenhouse. 



For particulars respecting its sale we must refer our readers to 

 Messrs. Veitch and Son's advertisement in another page of our 

 present number. 



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