150 THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



ent kinds in flower at the same time, resort must be had 

 to retarding the former by some process of shading or of 

 promoting the flowering of the European sorts by pro- 

 tecting them with glass, or some other covering, or the 

 farina may be saved in a tin box, or glass bottle, from 

 the grapery until the vines are in bloom. I have an 

 Isabella in the grapery growing principally for the pur- 

 pose of impregnation, and I may, one of these days, pro- 

 duce something new from it. This difference of the 

 flowering calls in question the accounts of seedlings hav- 

 ing been the result of a natural cross between our native 

 sorts and foreign ones; under usual circumstances, it 

 could not have taken place. 



" Mr. Van Mons added a remark which we do not re- 

 collect to have met with in horticultural writings, that, 

 by sowing the seeds of new varieties of fruits, we may 

 expect with much greater probability to obtain other 

 new kinds of good quality i' than by employing the seeds 

 of the best old established sorts." — Hort. Tour., Edin- 

 hurgh, 1823. 



The Van Mons theory is, that, when fhe seed of a 

 new variety of fruit has been planted, there is less lia- 

 bility to return to the wild state, than when the seed of 

 an old variety has been used, and he advises the sowing 

 the first seeds of the newest varieties of fruits, as the 

 surest method of producing kinds more and more ex- 

 cellent. 



Seeds matured by the most healthy and vigorous plants 

 are presumed to be the best for planting, to obtain new 

 kinds. The applying the pollen, or farina, of one va- 

 riety to the pistil, or stigma, of another, is the surer me- 



