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them, it appeared that they were grown at Isleworth, the situation 

 rather humid, and sheltered from the north and north-east. The soil 

 is rich mould, two to three feet deep, gravelly sand below, and well 

 drained ; the surface flat. The tree is on the Quince stock, and is fan- 

 trained against a south wall, eleven feet high, or nearly so ; it has been 

 nearly ten years in bearing, is vigorous, and has produced excellent 

 crops during several years. By the same firm, and from the same 

 locality, were exhibited large specimens of Ne Plus Meuris Pears, from 

 a south-west wall. The tree, nearly eight years in bearing, is on the 

 Quince stock, and trained horizontally. It is healthy, and a moderate 

 bearer. 



A communication was read from Mr. Spary, of Brighton, detailing 

 his mode of grafting Vines. It was intended to have accompanied a 

 bunch of Muscat Grapes produced by the graft, and exhibited at a 

 previous meeting, but arrived too late. The Grapery in which the 

 Vine is growing was built in 1855, and planted on the 18th of April 

 with Black Hamburgh and one Trebbiana. After two years' growth 

 they produced an excellent crop ; but the owner wishing to have a 

 Muscat substituted for the Trebbiana, Mr. Spary grafted its stem with 

 that and the Golden Hamburgh, the wood of the latter being much the 

 smaller in size, in consequence of the scarceness of that sort. He stated 

 that on the 1st of April, 1818, the existing Vine or stock, being at 

 that time in full leaf, was cut two feet four inches from the ground, and 

 a cleft made in the top, according to the usual mode of cleft grafting. 

 The Muscat scion was inserted on the east side, and on the west a 

 small graft of the Golden Hamburgh, the former being three inches 

 long, and having one eye, and the latter two inches. The junction was 

 bound over with matting, then covered with grafting wax, and over 

 that was put a coating of grafting clay, and a covering of Moss. 

 Proper attention was paid to syringing twice a day with the other 

 Vines. In this state the grafts remained for three weeks, at the end 

 of which time the Muscat began to grow ; and in the first week from 

 that time it grew four inches, in the second twelve, in the third twenty- 

 four, and in the fourth thirty-six. At this stage it was found requisite 

 to remove the Moss, clay, and wax ; and a slack bandage coated with 

 clay and covered with Moss, to retain proper moisture, was substituted ; 

 all which were taken off a fortnight later. The fifth week the scion 

 grew thirty-six inches, the sixth week thirty, and the two following 

 weeks five feet nine inches ; the whole length of the cane being eighteen 

 feet one inch. In addition to this growth, it threw out two or three feet 

 of lateral shoot at the top. The girth of the cane is as follows : — At 1 

 inch from the graft 3 \ inches, in the centre 2|, at the top If inch ; the 

 whole of the wood is well ripened. In addition to this extraordinary 

 growth, Mr. Spary stated that the laterals showed fruit as high as the 

 tenth or twelfth eye from the graft, but all were taken off except 

 two bunches on the ninth eye, those being left as an experiment. 



The cane of the Golden Hamburgh grew with the same rapidity as 

 its neighbour, but in conseepjenee of the smallness of the graft it did 

 not reach the same size, the following being its dimensions : — Length 

 14 feet 6 inches, girth at one inch from the graft 2^ inches, in the 



