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planted outside ordinarily do, and which is the case in that place. I 

 fruited it last season, but could not perceive any difference whatever from 

 the other White Muscats in the same hot-house, and under the same treat-, 

 ment. 



If any of your correspondents who have fruited it can give a better 

 account of it, it will reconcile those, perhaps, who have been induced to 

 give tv/o guineas a plant, for what is feared by some to be neither more 

 nor less than the old White Muscat of Alexandria. I am, Sir, &c. — • 

 W. W. Feb. 20. 1829. 



Zante Currant Grape. — Sir, I shall be obliged to you, or any of your 

 correspondents, who will inform me, through the medium of your Maga- 

 zine, of the best method of treating the Zante Currant grape, so as to 

 make it fruitful. I have had plants of it for several years, but have not 

 succeeded in getting them to produce. I am. Sir, &c. — C. L. May 9. 1829. 



Vines trained down from the Rafters. — Sir, In reply to the querist 

 (p. 110.), touching the 

 growth of vines, when trained 

 down from the rafters, I 

 have to state, for his inform- 

 ation, that the vines are 

 planted outside the house, 

 and when introduced, are 

 trained upon wires imme- 

 diately under the rafter, and 

 under each other, or in the 

 same plane with it; say 

 about 1 ft. asunder (j%. 172) 

 by which he will perceive 

 that neither of these great 

 requisites, light and heat, is thereby obstructed. By this method of 

 training, the back wall becomes an object of great importance, as it may be 

 entirely covered by a continuation of training on a trellis, and enjoys 

 all the benefits of light and heat that could be derived, if there were no 

 other training admitted in the house. I am. Sir, &c. — John Hai/croft. 



Vines for a Green-house. — Sir, In a green-house intended chiefly for 

 geraniums, the health of which is entirely studied, I am about to put six 

 vines, and as of course the house must not be heated to a higher degree 

 than the geraniums require, I shall feel much obliged by any of your 

 experienced practical readers mentioning in your next Magazine, whether 

 the following vines will succeed in such a situation : — White Frontignac, 

 Grizzly Frontignac, Early White TenerifFe, Black Hamburgh, Royal Mus- 

 cadine, and West's St. Peter. I shall also feel much obliged by their 

 mentioning the names of any other vines you can particularly recommend 

 for such a green-house. I am, &c. — A Constant Reader. Sept. 16. 1829. 



Mr. Squibs' s Mode of pruning the Vine. — A subscriber in Salem, Massa- 

 chusetts, is desirous of a more detailed account of this method, with its 

 advantages and disadvantages; and we should be much obliged to Mr. 

 Squib, or any other gardener who has practised this method, to supply it. 

 What is said of the method, in the page above referred to, is sufficient for 

 an experienced vine-dresser, but not, perhaps, for a beginner. — Cond.^ 



Sisymbrium indicum. — Can you give me an account of Sisymbrium indicum, 

 from the Isle of France, an Indian cress said not to suffer from the hardest 

 winter ; how to cultivate it ; and where seeds may be procured ? — W. J. 

 Bridport, May 25. 1829. 



Mr. Whitlaiv's Hemp. — Sir, In some one of the periodicals I lately met 

 with a description of a new hemp-plant, said to be introduced by Mr. Whit- 

 law, and grown in his garden at Bayswater. Would you, or any of your 

 correspondents, furnish me with the mode of culture of this plant, and how 



