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the eye or cutting, before they began to produce their present 

 crop ; each Vine had three or four perfect sized bunches on 

 it; the varieties were the Red Frontignac, the Black Ham- 

 burgh, the White Frontignac, the Finger Grape, or Corni- 

 chon blanc of Duhamel, the Black Prince, the Black St. 

 Peter's, and the White Muscadine. Mr. Buck finds this 

 method of obtaining Grapes answer particularly well, and by 

 removing the pots in the winter months, when the fruit is full 

 ripe, into a dry airy situation, he can preserve it fit for the 

 table much longer than he can in the vinery, when cloudy 

 and damp weather prevails. 



October 3, 1820. Roger Wilbraham, Esq. sent Speci- 

 mens of the Scarlet Nonpareil from ringed and unringed 

 branches, on a standard tree. Those from the ringed branch 

 were high coloured, and measured two inches and five-eighths 

 in heighth, and two inches and three-eighths in width. Those 

 from the unringed branches were still green, and far from 

 being ripe; and the largest measured only an inch and a 

 half in height, and two in width. Mr. Wilbraham also 

 sent specimens of other Apples, in which the effect of ringing 

 in increasing the brilliancy of colour was most remarkable. 

 It seemed, however, to injure the flavour. The operation 

 was performed in April; Mr. Wilbraham had in the 

 spring ringed several trees of different kinds of fruits, in 

 his garden, and the impression which the effects had made 

 on him, as well as on his gardener, was unfavourable to 

 the practice. With Plum and Cherry trees it did not suc- 

 ceed at all ; the Peaches and Nectarines which had been 

 ringed, for a time, shewed fruit of a larger size, but it 



