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Iii addition to these, the Muscat of Alexandria is a most 

 valuable kind if it can have a warmer position. The 

 Cannon Hall Muscat requires even more heat ; and indeed 

 all the Muscats are better if they can have fire-heat at 

 critical times. Some of the newer grapes are not in- 

 cluded in the above list, because n6t sufficiently proved. 

 For a retarding-house, the most suitable are Lady Downes, 

 Barbarossa, Trebbiana, and West's St. Peter's ; to which 

 may -be added Black Hamburg, Reine de Nice, White 

 Lisbon, Muscat of Alexandria, and Syrian. A wise culti- 

 vator, who seeks a profitable return, will confine himself 

 to a very few standard kinds ; while the amateur will take 

 pleasure in "proving all things, and holding fast that 

 which is good." 



NATIVE VARIETIES. 



The list has become extended to such a degree, that it 

 is now undesirable to give even the names, much less a 

 description, of the great majority which will soon fall 

 into oblivion. It is a great public injury to introduce and. 

 disseminate an inferior variety ; and it should be the ob- 

 ject of every pomologist to give such fruit a silent burial 

 in an early grave. We must learn also to hold introdu- 



