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the specimens then sent swperseded^ I will still carry out 

 an-' -mend the use of carrion, when it can be had.' 



d that the weight of grapes exhibited on this 

 uocasion, was as follows, one bunch in each case : — 



Canon Hall Muscat, 



White Nice, 



Black Hamburgh, - - - 



Black Prince, ... 



Black Damascus, ... 



Black Morocco, - . . 

 and the bunches were beautiful. But we have also be- 

 fore us, the following memorandum, to be found in the 

 ' Journal of the Horticultural Society,' vol. 11, p. 303. 



" ' On the twenty-first of August, 1847, the vice-secre- 

 tary received from Mr. Abel L. Gower four bunches of 

 grapes ; one a Muscat of Alexandria, weighing two 

 pounds nine ounces, and the others Black Hamburghs, 

 weighing, respectively, two pounds nine ounces, three 

 and a half pounds, and five pounds. The Black grapes 

 were rather deficient in color, but of very large size, and 

 excellent quality.' 



" Now it will be observed, that the smallest of these 

 bunches weighed more than Mr. Koberts's Black Ham- 

 burgh, and the largest more than twice as Tnuch. And 

 how did Mr. Hutchinson, the gardener at Castle Mal- 

 gwyn, obtain them ? By carrion, or any such violent 

 and disgusting materials ? Not at all. He states that 

 the compost ' used in the formation of the border, was 

 hazelly loam with its turf, three parts, and one part 

 brick, lime rubbish, and broken stones, with a little rich 

 old dung, the turf well rotted, and the whole well incor- 



