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change, it may be fraught with benefit to the different subjects. This 

 may often be accomplished by lifting, trenching, and replanting, as in 

 the case of Rose-beds, and other things similarly planted. 



Alex. IIoxeyman. 



THE CULFORD VINE SPORT. 



As many of our readers will remember, a West St Peter's Vine 

 at Culford had a graft of Alicante put on to it, the branches of the 

 latter variety being again furnished with grafts or inarches of, among 

 other sorts, Trebbiano and Golden Champion. In course of time 

 the Golden Champion was entirely cut away, but the rod of Treb- 

 biano was believed by some to have produced, the following year, a 

 bunch of Golden Champion. Mr Thomson of Tweed Vineyards, as 

 well as many others, thought that those who believed this occurrence 

 had made a mistake. In order to convince Mr Thomson of the 

 truth of it, eyes of the erratic Vine were sent to him, one of which 

 was in due course grafted on to a Muscat stock. The produce of 

 this bud or graft was six bunches of what Mr Thomson and 

 many others have no manner of doubt is Trebbia.no Grape. This of 

 course does not count for much, for ' The Gardeners' Chronicle ' con- 

 siders that in all probability only said bunches are Trebbiano, and 

 one "competent authority" thinks it may be White Tokay. The 

 eyes taken from the shoot that produced the Golden Champion at 

 Culford died. Some may say, " And no wonder, after such a pro- 

 digious effort." However, its " apparition," it is hopefully expected, 

 may appear again next year after a " season's rest." This is the age 

 of surprises. We have heard of a game the Americans term " per- 

 hapses." This Grape case very much resembles it in its uncertainty. 

 Perhaps Mr Thomson knows a Trebbiano from a Golden Champion 

 or a Tokay when he sees it, and perhaps he does not. Perhaps the 

 grapes he produced from the bud sent him were Tokays, and per- 

 haps they were not. The Duke of Buccleuch Grape has been blamed 

 for many evil ways, but never for starring it as a " ghosteses " in 

 the provinces, although it has been so often murdered and put out 

 of sight. 



We are not quite done with the apparition yet, for it has appeared 

 as large as life this year at Brayton Hall. This may account for its 

 non-appearance elsewhere. At Brayton there is a bunch of Trebbiano 

 with such enormously large berries, that we know of nothing so 

 likely as that it should be mistaken for the Champion. When quite 

 ripe, this bunch showed the tenderness of skin peculiar to Treb- 

 biano and Golden Champion under certain conditions. The Vine at 



