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gladdening the hearts of those to whom they belong. The culture of no 

 fruit deserves to be more encouraged than that of the apple, and from Mr. 

 Ronalds's knowledge of the trees, he will be able to indicate such as are 

 adapted for producing least shade on the crops below, such as are best fitted 

 for cold and exposed situations, and a variety of other useful particulars 

 now imperfectly understood. 



Mr. Ronalds's successful exertions afford another proof of what we have 

 all along stated, that if the labours which the Horticultural Society have 

 undertaken to perform in their own garden had been given out to the nur- 

 serymen, to market-gardeners, and to gentlemen's gardeners around the 

 metropolis, they would have been much more speedily and effectually per- 

 formed. The Society might still have received things in their garden from 

 all quai'ters, giving them out to the individuals who had undertaken to per- 

 form specific divisions of labour. The saving thus effected by the Society 

 would have enabled them to publish the fruits at once, and in a good style, 

 as well as to give handsome premiums and high honours to the different co- 

 operators. Nothing could have been more gratifying, more honourable, or 

 more advantageous, in a business point of view, to the nurseryman, than this 

 kind of arrangement. One nursery ever after would have been the fountain- 

 head for apples, another for pears, another for grapes, and so on. All the 

 country nurseries would have had their stock plants fi'om these nurseries j and 

 all the Fellows of the Society, instead of seven royal 4to volumes, price 

 39/. \os. 6d., containing about as much information as seven of our Maga- 

 zines, price 1/. 4s. 6d., would have had coloured engravings of all the best 

 varieties of European fruits. From this standard work they would have 

 given their orders, which, as far as means can be adapted to ends, would 

 have been at every nursery correctly executed. The mind of the societj^, 

 however, did not rise higher than that of an individual gardener; it set to 

 work itself, and therefore it must now go on with its labours. — Cond. 



The Haverstock Ntu'sery, Hampstead Road, Oct . 51. — We have been 

 much gratified by a call at this nursery, which we regret not to have before 

 examined. Mr. Money, the proprietor, has one of the most extensive and 

 correctly named collections of vines in the trade, and he has at least three 

 sorts, which, we are sure, we shall be doing a real service to grape-growers 

 to make extensively known. We had, through the kindness of our good 

 friend, Mr. Oldaker, described a grape, called by him " West's St. Peter," 

 in our First Number. (Vol. I. p. 56.) In that paper, Mr. Oldaker mentions 

 " another St. Peier grape," and it would appear from Mr. Money, that 

 there is a third St. Pet6r, because the one grown by him is very different 

 from either of the two described or mentioned by Mr. Oldaker. 



Money's West's Black St. Peter " was raised from seed about the year 

 1775, by Mr. Daniel West, in his own nursery ground, situated on the north 

 side of the New Road, opposite Fitzroy Square, in the parish of St. Pan- 

 eras. Mr. West had the highest opinion of this grape, as to all the quali- 

 ties requisite to constitute a first rate sort; but the demand for grapes at 

 that period being very trifling, this variety never became sufficiently known* 

 during Mr. West's liife time ; and after his death, Mr. Green, who got pos- 

 session of his grounds, though sensible of the high merit of this grape, suf- 

 fered the plant to ramble about in a state almost wild, and there being little 

 demand, only a few plants were scattered about the neighbourhood. Mr. 

 Green let the ground to a musical reed maker, and his daughter, who was 

 his head gardener and paid very little attention to the vine, let things fall 

 into a state of neglect, so that in a few years the ground fell into the hands 



*. One person has beep named to us who sold it under the name of Rai- 

 sin de Carmes, at I05. Qd. a cutting, with two eyes. — Cond. 

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