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Domestic Notices : — England. 



a variety raised in 1834, and named the Hero of Surrey. The petals of the 

 Viscountess are large, flattish, pretty numerous, and imbricatedly arranged 

 into a flattish flower, in which not any eye is shown, but which has the centre 

 filled with petals : all the petals have broad tips ; but the centre of the tip is 

 extended into a blunt point. If the variety prove constant to the characters 

 portrayed in the coloured drawing, it will be a valuable one. — D. N. R. 



Sai'racema purjmrea. — We have now growing, and doing well, about a 

 score of young plants of this species, raised from seeds collected from a plant 

 which flowered in our nursery. Our plants are now twelve months old ; and, 

 we believe, few, if any, have been raised in this country from English seeds 

 before. — John Pope and Sons. Handswortli Nursery, near Binningha^n, August 

 8. 1835. 



Hamburgh Grapes. — I have sent you a bunch or two of black Hamburgh 

 grapes, in order that you may observe a berry on one of the bunches. I 



hope you will measure it, 



/^ I Q , and let me know if berries 



/| so shaped are common. We 



■ - I « have many such here, even 



though our grapes are not so 

 fine this season as they were 

 last year. I frequently grow 

 the black Hamburgh to 41b. 

 and 4i lb. per bunch. The 

 fruit sent was grown in a 

 pine stove under the rafters. 

 The vines are planted out- 

 side the house, in a border 

 26 ft. wide, and 5 ft. deep, 

 the bottom being thoroughly 

 drained with limestone. The 

 vines are taken out every 

 winter through the front 

 lights, and, when the frost is 

 severe, they are protected by 

 fern or straw. A little frost 

 is of service ; but, when 

 severe, it is ruinous to 

 the young wood. The vines 

 are pruned according to 

 the spurring-in system. — 

 Thomas Forrest. Kinmel 

 Park, Cheshire, Juli/\2. 1825. 

 One of the bunches received weighed 21b, 9oz., and the other 21b. 5 oz. 

 The large berry shown mjig. 94. measured 4^ in. in cu'cumference j a vertical 



section of it is shown in^g. 95. at a, and a horizontal section at b : all these 

 figures are of the natural size. — Cond. 



