216 GRAPES. 



not plentiful, but of a sweet, highly musky, and most 

 delicious flavour. 



This may be justly considered as one of the very best 

 grapes ever introduced into this country. It requires a 

 higher degree of temperature to ripen than many others, 

 and generally succeeds best in the pine stove. It may, 

 nevertheless, be ripened very well in a lower temper- 

 ature ; but then it is necessary it should be forced early 

 in the spring. 



The Tottenham Park Muscat, which was said to be 

 the produce of a seed of the Muscat of Alexandria, sown 

 in 1819, turns out to be nothing more than this. It 

 has been proved to be so over and over again, by the best 

 practical gardeners, who have grown them both. The 

 size of its berries has been urged as constituting its dif- 

 ference ; but berries of the Old Muscat have been grown, 

 near London, which measured four inches in circumfer- 

 ence the long way, and three inches and a half the short 

 one, when the largest produced by Mr. Burn, of the 

 Tottenham Park Muscat, which were compared with 

 them, did not equal that size. 



I have several times seen the original tree at Totten- 

 ham Park, where it has a small house to itself, which, 

 under Mr. Burn's excellent management, certainly pro- 

 duces fruit of the very highest character ; and I have 

 always observed that there were other bunches, besides 

 the first, which would form two other crops, and ripen 

 in succession. The Old Muscat, however, will do tbe 

 same, when subjected to similar treatment. 



60. WHITE MUSCAT FROM LUNEL. Speedily, 49. 



Berries large, oval, and when perfectly ripe of a fine 

 amber colour, sometimes clouded with russet, especially 

 on the side next the sun ; they form pretty large bunches. 

 The skin is thin, and the flesh delicate, replete with a 

 vinous juice. 



It requires a hothouse or a vinery. 



