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pure white : and so I might go on to describe fourteen or fifteen distinct 

 and beautiful double and semi-double varieties, besides duplicates of the 

 same, and as many more improved single varieties from this collection 

 of Prussian seeds. 



The petunia makes the best display when planted in masses in the grass, 

 or in beds prepared for them in the common garden. 



Single plants of the fine varieties, when well trained to a trellis, either 

 in the border, or in pots in the greenhouse, are very showy. The double 

 varieties are not so abundant in flowers as the single sorts, and do not 

 stand out-door culture so well. The common sorts were esteemed very 

 highly when first introduced ; but they have made themselves too com- 

 mon, as they fill the ground with their young plants by the profusion of 

 seed, and are now considered but a little better than weeds. 



THE BRANT GRAPE. 



Our illustration of this variety is from a specimen sent us last autumn 

 by the originator, Mr. Charles Arnold of Paris, C.W., by whom it was at 

 first designated No.- 8. We are not aware that it has fruited, except 

 on the grounds of the originator, and we are indebted to him for the de- 

 scription. 



This grape is a seedling of Clinton crossed with Black St. Peter's. It 

 is entirely distinct, both in flavor and appearance, from any other grape. 

 The leaves are very deeply lobed ; and both half-grown leaves and the young 

 shoots are of a peculiar dark blood-red color. The fruit is eatable before 

 either Massasoit (Rogers's No. 3) or Hartford Prolific ; but, after the slight 

 frost that we are subject to here in the latter part of September, the fruit 

 becomes very much improved, and continues to improve by hanging upon 

 the vines till quite late in the season. Color black ; skin thin ; free from 

 pulp ; seeds quite small. The flavor is difficult for me to describe ; it seems 

 to be very sweet, but yet to retain the peculiar pleasant tartness of the 

 frost grape. It never falls from the bunch, or loses its flavor from keep- 

 ing, like many of the Labrusca family, but will keep all winter, and is then 



