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great property of tliis variety, is its long keeping on 

 the tree, hanging sometimes in the stove till the end 

 of November. 



A grape called the Tottenham Park Muscat, said 

 to have been raised from the seed of the above, has 

 been going the round of the nurseries lately : but it 

 is questionable whether it be not the very same. 

 Young plants, however, sold well, and so far the new 

 name has been of service. 



Some gardeners have complained, that the white 

 Muscat has failed in setting- its fruit, and have advised 

 dusting the flowers with the pollen of some other 

 sort as a remedy ; but the best remedy for this 

 failure, supposing it to exist, is good management. 



21 . Black Coitstantia, — Otherwise called the Purple 

 Frontigniac. It is a very rich grape ; the bunches 

 are long and regularly formed ; the berries middle 

 size, rather closely set, of a deep purple colour, 

 approaching to black. The skin is thin, the pulp 

 juicy, and partakes of the Muscat flavour. The tree 

 is a good bearer, as was evident both at Welbec and 

 Fulham, where trees received from the Cape of 

 Good Hope were planted about the same time. 



The quality of this, and all other fruit, is much 

 influenced by the soil on which they grow. The 

 wines made from the grapes produced on the shallow 

 soil of the hills, is invariably found to be superior to 

 that made from the larger fruit of the rich valley. 

 This is the case at the Cape, as well as in all the 

 wine countries of Europe. 



22. Blue or Black TokuT/. — This grape has been 



