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XXVII. Note upon the Cannon Hall Muscat Grape. By John 

 Lindley, Esq. F. R. S. Assistant Secretary. 



Read January 17th, 1832. 



A beautiful specimen of a delicious Grape resembling the 

 Muscat of Alexandria having been sent to the Society, in the inter- 

 val between two of the Meetings in August last, by Mr. Robert 

 Buck, of Blackheath, a drawing was made of it for the purpose of 

 being communicated to the Society, with such information as could 

 be procured respecting it. 



From notes communicated to me by Mr. Buck, and from per- 

 sonal inspection, I am now enabled to give the following par- 

 ticulars. 



The actual origin of the variety is uncertain ; it became first 

 known to Mr. Buck while in the service of Lord Bagot, at Blithfield 

 Hall, in consequence of a plant having been presented to his Lord- 

 ship by Charles Spencer Stanhope, Esq. of Cannon Hall, in 

 Yorkshire, as one of the finest and largest Grapes in England — a cha- 

 racter which it has been found by experience to deserve. In gene- 

 ral appearance it is similar to the Muscat of Alexandria, from which 

 it may be distinguished by its wood being rather stronger, by its 

 leaves being much larger, and their petioles thicker in a remarkable 

 degree ; its bunch also sets thinner and in a more regular manner ; 

 its berries are perceptibly longer, their flesh is less firm, although 

 equally rich, and finally, it ripens by the side of the Muscat of 

 Alexandria full a fortnight earlier. 



In cultivating it Mr. Buck, who grows it in a succession Pine 

 stove, keeps the temperature as low as his Pines will bear in 

 winter, till about the middle or end of February, when he gradually 



