PROCEEDINGS. 



Mynii, Queen of Primroses, Black Prince, Mr. Palmer, 

 Rosea Alba, Grandis, Model, Miss Hawtrey, and Goliah ; 

 the last six being seedlings. The same grower also showed 

 twelve fancy flowers, viz. : Belle de Nogent, Highland 

 Chief, Mrs. Hansard (Edwards), Freund Schmidt, General 

 Cavaignac, Gasparini, Nonsuch (Turner), Dulcinee, Rain- 

 bow, Mrs. Labouchere, Striata Perfecta, and Pretty Polly 

 (Turner) ; the latter a seedling of considerable promise. 

 To Mr. Fleming, Gardener to the Duke of Sutherland at 

 Trentham, for three bunches of Millhill Black Hamburgh 

 Grapes, weighing respectively lib. lOozs., lib. 9^ozs., 

 and 1 lb. 6 ozs. Concerning this large and finely flavoured 

 Grape Mr. Fleming furnished the following memoranda : — 

 " Many persons being doubtful as to the existence of any 

 real diflference between the Millhill Hamburgh and the 

 common one, and others confounding the Millhill with the 

 old Dutch Hamburgh, I send some of each, in order that 

 the question may be decided. The Millhill is later in 

 ripening than the common Hamburgh, and its skin being 

 tougher, renders it a good keeping grape. The vine makes 

 strong roots, and, unless means are taken to keep them out 

 of the subsoil, they will soon be revelling in it, and the 

 wood will not ripen well. Our border is shallow and con- 

 creted below, and the wood ripens perfectly. This grape is, 

 in my opinion, the best of the late black kinds, and seems 

 to be a cross between the Black Damascus and the Ham- 

 burgh, but partaking more of the latter. The grape which 

 I call the old Dutch Hamburgh is large in the berry, of 

 excellent flavour, and very juicy. It does not always 

 become black, but with us is oftener of a flame or red 

 colour, in which state it is much admired. The fewer the 

 number of bunches left upon the vine the nearer to black 

 do the berries approach, although I have never seen them 

 perfectly black. There seems to be much confusion of 

 names among grapes. We have here no fewer than four 

 kinds of Hamburghs, all of which I have tried in one 

 house, and, for early forcing, none excels the variety called 

 the ' Pope^ a grape for many years grown most successfully 

 at Swinnerton Hall, in this county (Staffordshire) ; but of 

 which I have not a bunch fit to send to the Meeting." To 

 Mr. Forsyth, Gardener to Viscount Barrington, Beckett, 

 Shrivenham, Berks, for three beautiful bunches of Black 

 Hamburgh Grapes, a little rubbed by travelling, weighing 

 respectively 2 lbs., 1 lb. 10 ozs., and 1 lb. 7 ozs. 

 Certificate of Merit : To Mr. Rust, Gardener to J. Maclaren, 

 Esq., of Ticehurst, Sussex, for examples of Black Hamburgii 

 Grapes. To Mr. Ferguson, of Stowe, for the same. To 



