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HUE STOCKWOOD GOLDEN UAMBRO' GRAPE. 



tlic wood is preserved and shown, and the same tone of rolor is given that tlic 

 fine woods liave naturally. 1 have seen a small church lately where the wood- 

 work (including timber, ceiling, &c.) is all done in this way, and the effect is 

 admirable. The cost of the liquid for this church (seats 200) was twenty shillings 1 



I am busy with "Downing's New Cottages and Villas," with interiors, fountains, 

 &c. Ilave you seen a copy of the colored edition of my Fruits, just published, 

 the plates done in Paris? It is, I think, very handsome. The price, $15, pre- 

 vents a poor author sending many gift copies! I received a letter from a gentle- 

 man in Germany near the Baltic last week, who has my work on Fruits — it has 

 got as far as that — and he considers it so superior to all that he has seen that he 

 wants to translate and publish it in German. It has been, on the whole, the most 

 popular gardener's book ever written. I am now correcting for the eighth edition. 



I want you to do me a favoi*. When I was in riiiladelphia, I was so much 



pleased with a little Italian song which Mrs. sang, that I bought a copy in 



Chestnut Street, and now I want another for a friend. The name is "Benedetta 



te sul Madre," and cost "two levies." "When it is convenient, if you will buy it 



and send it me by mail, consider the money invested at 100 per cent., and oblige, 



Very cordially, yours, 



A. J. DOWNING. 

 To J. Jay Smith, Esq. 



THE STOCKWOOD GOLDEN HAMBRO' GRAPE. 



,CARCELY a season passes in wliich we have not something 

 new in the way of fruits ; but it rarely happens that 

 they possess anything more than novelty to recommend 

 them. The mass of new fruits puts ns in mind of that 

 host of rhymesters, who, having only a dreamy vision of 

 '^ Parnassus, never reach it, yet, nevertheless, fancy them- 

 selves poets. But as it rarely happens that we have 

 more than one good poet, or two at most, in a genera- 

 . ^ -/-/ - /.T-cjT • TV - tion, so, also, if we obtain one or two really good, endur- 

 l ^yvi^f!^ JDo iiew fruits in the same period, we may be thankful. 



Within the last twenty years we have bad "Victoria," and many other sorts of 

 Hambro', all of which made a great noise in their day; but they were soon 

 forgotten, and men betook themselves to the old Black Hambro' again. The 

 variety which we have this week chosen for our subject is one which is not likely 

 to be so soon forgotten, bnt which, there can be no doubt, will be as enduring 

 as its parents, the old Black Hambro' and the White Sweet-water. 



The Stockwood Golden Hambro' was raised from seed by Mr. Bushby, the 

 excellent gardener to S. Crawley, Esq., near Luton. It was not obtained by 



