264 NOTICE RESPECTING TWO VARIETIES OF GRAPES. 



with covers V, by which the ammonia may be admitted iuto the house 

 or not, at pleasure. 

 n Cemented brick troughs or tanks, perfectly level, 12 inches wide, 

 6 inches deep, extending from the front wall q to the front of the 

 border g. These tanks, by means of a 3-inch pipe at o, are filled with 

 manure-water at those seasons when it is thought advisable to give the 

 plants an extra stimulus. There is an aperture in the front wall of 

 the border at m, through which the hand with a small scraper can be 

 introduced to clean out the tank and ascertain its wants. 



XXX. — Notice respecting Two Varieties of Grapes. By John 

 Williams, C.M.H.S., of Pitmaston. 



(Communicated November 12, 1846.) 

 Some three or four years ago I sent you specimens of a seedling 

 grape which I raised from the White Nice, impregnated with 

 the pollen of the small Black Cluster so common on our walls. 

 The object was to obtain a hardy grape for culture on south 

 walls, having a small black berry, spreading its bunch, and not 

 crowded and wedged together like the common Black Cluster, 

 the Miller, and all the Burgundy grapes. The experiment com- 

 pletely succeeded. I have obtained the small black berry, with 

 an enlarged loose-growing bunch. In a good season it becomes 

 perfectly sweet on a south wall by the middle of September ; but 

 this year it has gained little further maturity for the last six 

 weeks, owing to the wet cloudy weather we have experienced. 

 The wasps and flies having made an early attack on the fruit, 

 each bunch was enclosed in a bag of crape or other thin material, 

 which has, with the leaves, much obs-tructed the light and heat. 

 However^ for some time past, my family have preferred them to 

 the grapes ripened under glass : they say they taste " fresher 

 and more juicy." I have fiesired my gardener to pack up a small 

 box of grapes to go by the railroad this evening. The box con- 

 tains two bunches of the " Nice Cluster" grown on a south wall, 

 and one bunch of the same vine ripened under glass. Some of 

 my friends, who regard flavour more tlian size, have cut away 

 their Hamburgh Grapes, and cultivated this instead. AVhen so 

 cultivated it ripens early, and will remain sound on the vine 

 long without shrivelling. 



I have also sent you two bunches of a white grape which has 

 become a favourite Avith me. It is the oflspring of a Seedling 

 White Muscadine (Chasselas) and the polleji of the Muscat of 

 Alexandria. It does not, in appearance, in the least resemble 

 its male parent, the berry not being oval, nor the flesh hard ; but 

 it has some of the perfume of the Frontigtian Grapes, and the 

 berr}^ never shrivels like the Black, White, and Red Frontignans. 

 The bunch is small, but a very great bearer, and the smallest 



