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of Tankerville, in walking through the Vineries at Clare- 

 mont, and expressing their high opinion of its flavor, inquired 

 its name. We could only reply that it was a new grape, 

 for which we had no name. That excellent lady remarked 

 that it ought to be called the Golden Drop. We believe we 

 were the means of introducing this grape into Scotland under 

 the latter name. 



A year or two ago, Mr. Josling, a small nurseryman at St. 

 Alban's, brought this identical grape out again, as a new 

 variety, and sold it at a very high price, and hence the name 

 of Josling's St. Alban's grape. Here we have an instance of 

 the evil of fruits being allowed to exist under different names, 

 as the Chasselas Musque, the Golden Drop, and^Josling's St. 

 Alban's are identically one and the same. This grape has 

 hitherto been admitted to be an excellent bearer, and pos- 

 sessing a very high musky flavor, but that it invariably 

 cracked in the skin as soon as ripe and immediately decayed. 

 Such a character we have given it ourselves from the fact 

 that we had always found it so. This season, however, its 

 character in this respect appears to have completely changed, 

 for those ripened by the middle of September are still in high 

 perfection, one of which is the bunch exhibited before the 

 Society, and many such still continue on the vines. We 

 have, perhaps, been a little too prolix in reference to this 

 grape, but we think it our duty to make the circumstance 

 known, that such of our readers as may have the vine, may 

 be induced to continue its cultivation. 



To this must be added that the party named in the above 

 account was Mr. Wilmot, of Isleworth, who disseminated 

 the vine under the name of Wilmot's Muscat Muscadine, at 

 one guinea a plant, a price which we paid in 1844. In 1843 

 we received a vine from Mr. Buist, under the name of Muscat 

 Blanc Hatif, which as we have said, proves to be identical ; 

 and in 1847 we had one from France called the Muscat Jesus, 

 which is also synonymous. With all these facts, we trust 

 hereafter it may be known only under its original name of 

 Chasselas Musque. 



