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Note. — This variety is as large, I think, as the Brown Beurre, 

 and I have never tasted the last mentioned sort better than the 

 Dunmore. When it has remained to ripen and grow yellow upon 

 the tree, I have thought it the most melting and best pear of its 

 early season. The birds are apt to destroy most of the crop pre- 

 maturely. The tree is fine and perfectly healthy. Grafts of it 

 which were inserted into stocks two years only ago, afforded an 

 abundant blossom in the last spring, and are now bearing fruit ; 

 though the weather in part of the spring was extremely unfavourable 

 and destroyed every blossom of the more delicate varieties. The 

 trees are of very rapid growth and the varieties appear to be ex- 

 tremely well adapted to cold and late situations. 



12. Party-coloured Grape. 

 Bunches rather small, oblong, slightly shouldered, rather loose. 

 Berries small, round. Some bunches from the same plant are 

 entirely purple, whilst others are all of the colour of the White 

 Muscadine ; some are chiefly purple with a sprinkling of berries 

 entirely green or variegated ; and others are the reverse, and some 

 are of a grizzly colour. Some berries are distinctly one half purple 

 and the other half green ; others are striped. The pulp of the 

 purple berries is purple ; that of the white greenish yellow. Pulp 

 juicy and sugary, with a moderate quantity of acid ; not unlike the 

 White Muscadine in flavour. Stones, one or two perfect in each 

 berry. It will keep for a considerable time after the bunches are 

 cut. 



Note. — This little grape, which is seen of many different colours, 

 has in every season ripened tolerably well in the cold climate of 

 this place ; certainly better than any other which I have grown 

 and I believe it to be better adapted to make wine in a cold cli- 

 mate than any cultivated. I feel confident that it is superior to 

 most of the grapes cultivated in France and that the merits of 



