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IX. An Account of a New Seedling Grape. In a Letter to 

 the Secretary. By Mr. Henry Burn, F, H. S. Gardener 

 to the Marquess of Ailesbury, F. H. S. fyc. 



Sir Read December 7, 1824. 



I have the honour to send you herewith another specimen 

 of the New Muscat Grape, for exhibition to-morrow, at the 

 Meeting of the Society. I regret that I was not able to send 

 you any bunches of it in September, as I had intended, but 

 those which you received in July will have enabled you to 

 judge of the size to which they attain ; and what you now 

 receive will furnish a better sample as to flavour, those first 

 sent having been scarcely ripe. The Society having deemed 

 so highly of the Grape as to honour me with a Silver Medal for 

 having raised it, I have thought it right to send you such 

 particulars relative to the Vine, as may serve to record its 

 origin. 



In the spring of the year 1819, I sowed a considerable 

 number of seeds of the Muscat of Alexandria Grape in a pot, 

 in the Pine stove. When the plants came up, I remarked 

 one much stronger than the others, and which soon took the 

 lead of them all so decidedly, that I planted it by itself, and 

 rejected all the rest. In the following spring, I turned it out 

 against the back wall of a Pine stove (having no more favour- 

 able situation for it), and trained the shoots down the rafters 

 to the front. The plant grew with great vigour, but was not 

 allowed to bear till 1 823, and then only a few bunches were 

 suffered to ripen on it. This year it has borne a full crop, 

 or, I ought rather to say, three crops, for the whole of the 



