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small for table use. The next crosses were between Blanc de Saumur 

 and Chasselas Musque, and Chasselas Musque and the Citronelle. 

 Prom these two crosses I have obtained the most delicious kinds 

 that ever came under my notice, more so even than the old 

 Frontignan and Chasselas Musque. Two of them are sweet- 

 scented, smelling, when the sun shines on them, like orange- 

 blossom. Nothing I have ever seen can compare with them in 

 flavour and productiveness ; their size, too, is very large, some of 

 them being as large again as the Frontignan. 



Two other most remarkable crosses are Chasselas Musque fer- 

 tilized by the Long Noir Durant, a large oval black grape, on a 

 very large bunch, but of an inferior flavour. This cross produced 

 grapes of various colours, black, pink, and grizzly, but all quite 

 round. The next time I made Long Noir Durant the female pa- 

 rent ; and, curiously enough, the result was almost identical with 

 the former, there not being an oval berry obtained. A very slight 

 Muscat taste is observable in a few ; but in the greater number it 

 is not observable at all. 



These are the results from about 500 seedlings that I have raised 

 and 400 sorts that I have fruited ; I have some more yet to fruit, 

 such as the Cannon Hall crossed by the Japanese one. 



As the result of my experience, I am convinced that no one can 

 tell, in raising a lot of seedling grapes, what they will be likely to 

 get, they vary so much. 



I next directed my attention to peaches. 



My object was to obtain peaches with nectarine flavour, and I 

 am glad to say I have succeeded. The Nectarines I made the 

 female plants were the Violet Hative, Pitmaston Orange, and the 

 Stanwick, crossed with the Noblesse and Barrington peaches. 

 Although the Violet Hative nectarine had a small flower, still, 

 when crossed with the large-flowering peaches, eight out of twelve 

 were large-flowered ; and out of fifteen kinds fruited this summer, 

 only one was a nectarine, the others were all peaches, most of 

 them with the nectarine-flavour. Two of them were especially de- 

 licious, having a beautiful nectarine-flavour, melting like a peach, 

 but full-coioured like the former fruit. The stones that produced 

 the seedlings were sown in the beginning of February 1863 ; the 

 greater part of them flowered in February 1864 ; but the fruit fell 

 off. I now have one planted out in my peach-house that will have 

 next June ten or twelve dozen peaches on it. It is 10 feet high, 

 about the same width, and covered with fine-blooming wood. 



