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the Green Gage flavor, but not quite so jnicy ; color green, 

 spotted with red ; flesh parts freely from the stone. I ate my 

 fruit October 22d, and found them excellent; it is perfectly 

 hardy, and its fruit may be preserved on the tree, if the season 

 is not very wet. till November. 



Rivers' s Earhj, No. 1. — I mention this plum only because 

 it has invariably proved excellent, and on account of my hav- 

 ing given it a name; it will, in future, be called " Rivers's 

 Early Favorite ;" its shoots are downy ; it ripens a trifle earlier 

 than the following, and in flavor is, I think, a little superior. 



Rivers'' s Early, No. 2. — This is the hardiest and most pro- 

 lific of all our early plums ; in fact, it always bears a crop ; I 

 purpose to call it '• Rivers's Early Prolific." In Covent Gar- 

 den market, in July last, the fruit sold readily at 7s. per sieve, 

 containing about half a bushel. The shoots of this are smooth, 

 although it was raised, like the preceding, from Precoce de 

 Tours, which has downy shoots ; it may be called the Market 

 Gardener's Plum, par excellence, on account of its great pro- 

 ductiveness. 



Grapes, 



Since our account of several varieties last year, (Vol. XIII. 

 p. 114,) a few new ones have been introduced to the notice of 

 cultivators : of the qualities of some of these we have but lit- 

 tle information ; of the others, we add the following : — 



Black Prince Hamburgh. — A new seedling, raised by Mr, 

 John Williams, of Pitmaston, who gives the following account 

 of it in the Journal of the Hort. Soc. (Vol. III. p. 44.) The 

 variety was a cross obtained by impregnating the Black Ham- 

 burgh with the pollen of the Black Prince, which I consider, 

 after more than forty years' experience, to be one of the best 

 grapes we have — not of the perfumed kind. The only defect 

 I find in the Black Prince is, that the berries grow too much 

 crowded, and require so much thinning. I therefore wedded 

 it to the Hamburgh, with a view of obtaining a more loose 

 open bunch, with the vinous acidity and richness of the 

 Black Prince. This double object, I think, I have obtained 

 It ripens earlier than the Hamburgh, and colors with less 

 heat and light. The plant from which I gathered the bunch 



