FKUIT AND KITCHEN PLANTS IN THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 75 



XIII. — Notes on Fruit and Kitchen Plants proved i?i the 

 Garden of the Society in 1848. By R. Thompson. 



1. The Queen Muscat Grape. 

 A PLANT of a vine under tlie above name was received last 

 spring from Mr. Glendinning, Cliiswick Nursery, Turnham 

 Green. It was only a young plant raised from an eye in the 

 previous season. It however fruited in an 8-inch pot. The size 

 the bunch would attain from a well-established vine can therefore 

 only be estimated comparatively with that of other sorts grown 

 in a pot under similar circumstances, and accordingly it may be 

 stated to be larger than that of the Royal Muscadine. The berries 

 are also fully as large as those of tlie latter, but perfectly dis- 

 tinct, being oval. They are yellowish wliite, semi-transparent, 

 so that the one seed which each berry contains can be seen 

 through the skin. The flesh is firmer than that of the Sweet- 

 water, but much more tender than that of the Muscat of Alex- 

 andria, rich and sugarj\ It is an early grape ; and as far as 

 can be judged of it, grown as above stated, it appears highly de- 

 serving of cultivation. For pot culture it has proved to be 

 'exceedingly well adapted. 



2. Cardon Puvis. 

 This is a variety of cardoon remarkable for its almost entire 

 and spineless leaves. In tiiis season there were some sharp frosts 

 in November, the temperature being sometimes 10°, and in one 

 instance 14^ below the freezing-point. It appeared from these 

 circumstances that the Cardon Puvis was more tender than the 

 Cardon de Tours. 



3. Largest Asiatic Caueifloaver. 



This is a good variety of cauliflower, seeds of which were this 

 year, and formerly, received from Messrs. Schertzer, of Haarlem. 

 It grows taller, and produces larger heads, than the common, 

 under the same circumstances. 



4. Earey Leyden Cauliflower. 



Also received from Messrs. Schertzer, of Haarlem. This ap- 

 peared identical with Legge's Walcheren Brocoli or Cauliflower, 

 noticed vol. i. p. 309. To this notice, and particularly to the 

 excellent directions by the late Mr. Legge for the cultivation of 

 the variety, I would beg to direct attention. A correction is 

 required, page 310, line 6 from the top : — " For the purpose of 

 solving seed," read saving seed. It is difficult in very many 

 cases to save brocoli-seed correctly in this country, and to save 

 it in any degree of perfection is often impossible. It is therefore 

 satisfactory to know that this most useful variety, sometimes dif- 

 ficult to obtain under the name of Legge's "VValcheren Brocoli 

 or Cauliflower, may be procured, under the name of the Early 

 Leyden Cauliflower, from the Continent. 



