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own roots struck from a cutting four years since, and now producing 

 none of the flowers proper to the variety, but rosy pink flowers 

 only. 



Wiiatever of interest for the physiologist or horticulturist there 

 may be in the production of new varieties of roses from sports, 

 it is at least curious that the tliree here named have originated 

 as they have done, the parent varieties being so nearly alike. Two 

 out of the three may be described as yellow Noisette roses, 

 although Gloire de Dijon is usually classed as a tea, while the Sou- 

 Tsnir, though a Bourbon and flesh-tinted, is really not far removed 

 in aflSnities. S. H. 



THE AMATEUR'S VINEET. 

 No. 3. — The Muscat House. 



BY THOMAS TEUSSLEE, 

 Nureeryman, etc., Edmonton, N. 



|:N speaking of the Muscat of Alexandria, which is one of 

 the finest and most richly flavoured of all grapes 'at 

 present in cultivation, it is needful to say it is not suit- 

 able for planting in the amateur's vinery, strictly so 

 called. It requires more heat than the Black Ham- 

 burg, Buckland Sweetwater, and Black Prince, and for that reason 

 alone cannot be cultivated with gain. It also requires more skilful 

 cultivation. Yet it is so distinct and good, that the energetic 

 amateur, with more than one house available for grape-growing, 

 should take it in hand boldly. The production of a good crop of 

 Muscats is an achievement of which an amateur may well feel proud, 

 and with careful management, a large measure of success is well- 

 nigh certain. The main point in which the cultivation of this 

 splendid grape diifers from the other kinds alluded to is in requiring 

 a higher temperature, and it should, as far as practicable, be grown 

 in a house by itself. It need not be a large house, and one twelve 

 feet in width and twenty or thirty feet long, would yield a supply 

 suflBcient to last during the greater part of the winter. However, 

 to show that it may be grown most successfully in very small 

 houses, I will mention the fact that last autumn I saw in the garden 

 of which a friend of mine has charge, a most beautiful crop in a 

 house eight feet in width and sixteen feet in length. The house was 

 one of a series of cucuraber-houses that, as more cucumbers were 

 produced annually than were wanted, and a supply of Muscats 

 required, it was determined to plant it with vines. Hot-water 

 pipes already existed underneath the bed on which the cucumbers 

 were grown, and as bottom heat is of considerable service in the 

 production of Muscats, the pipes were allowed to remain, and a 

 strong platform formed with stone slabs, upon which to put the 

 soil. When this was done, the border was formed with materials 



