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Earl)/ Blach Bordeaux. — Berries large and round, bunclies short, 

 colour deep purple, fine rich flavour. Useful for its earliness. 



Gros Maroc.^ — Berries oval, deep purple, covered with dense 

 bloom, flesh very sweet and rich, an excellent bearer. 



jRoyal Vineyard. — Large bunch and large oval berry, colour clear 

 amber, flesh crackling, sweet, juicy, with a fine refreshing aroma. 



The above might be added to, to a considerable extent, for the 

 fact is any variety of grape which does not require a great heat to 

 ripen it, or a peculiarly high temperature when in flowers may be 

 grown in these vineries. The foregoing selection includes a few that 

 are most likely to be generally useful, and six of them are marked 

 with an asterisk as the best of the series where only six kinds are 

 required. Shieley Hibbeed, 



SWEETLT-SMELLK^G FLOWERS. 



BY ME. W. EOBIlSrSON, EOYAL BOTANIC GAEDENS, EEGENT's PARK. 



fRILLIANT colour in our gardens and greenhouses has long 

 fascinated us, form has a still more refined attraction for 

 thousands of fern-lovers and growers of foliage plants and 

 palms ; but what about the perfume, to the production of 

 which we hardly devote any attention ? What more 

 delightful association of the garden than its delicious fragrance, 

 especially if it be a garden comprising a great variety of subjects ? 



Form and colour have been hitherto the great ends in view both 

 in the laying out and management of gardens. I think it would be 

 a great improvement if we occasionally gave a thought or two to 

 perfume, and made a point of enjoying it in its most delicate and 

 delightful varieties. Let it be understood that I am not now 

 writing for large gardens in particular, where every worthy subject 

 may be paid attention to, but for every variety of garden, from that 

 of a square perch in extent to the " ducal" gardens, and even for that 

 popular kind which has the window-sill for its subsoil, and is gene- 

 rally moistened from the water-jug, as every known variety appears 

 to be about equally badly ofl" lor that without which flowers lose 

 half their charms. ]S["ow if I were going to lay out a place for 

 myself, I would arrange a quiet nook according to scent. You know 

 Sydney Smith confessed that he should not be surprised if the 

 alphabet could be taught blind children by a series of scents, and 

 that men may see the day w^hen they may smell out their learning, 

 and when " a fine-scenting day shall be (which it certainly is not at 

 present) considered as a day peculiarly favourable to study." Hoi-ti- 

 culturists have done this already to a great extent. If the truth 

 was fully told, a great many of the best of them have " smelt in " a lot 

 of the zeal and love for their favourite pursuit which animates them. 

 Of course it is impossible to exclude au agreeable fragrance from 

 the garden, arrange it as we may ; but it is mostly a matter of 

 accident, and very different in kind from that furnished by some of 



