368 JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



COMMONPLACE NOTES. 

 By the Editor. 



Exchange of Plants. 



Our Fellow Mr. R. F. Silvers, of Avery Island, Louisiana, U.S.A., 

 is desirous of exchanging rare plants (both native and foreign) with 

 plant lovers, and is especially anxious to get into correspondence 

 with cultivators of plants in the British Colonies. 



' Cannon Hall Muscat ' Grape. 



Mr. Spencer Pickering, F.R.S., writes : " Is there any means 

 of regaining orthography for the Cannon Hall Grape, which is generally 

 quoted as ' Canon Hall ' or even ' Canon Hale ' ? Its sponsor was not a 

 pillar of the Church, but my grandfather, John Spencer Stanhope, 

 of Cannon Hall, near Barnsley. When travelling in Greece in 1814, 

 he sent home cuttings of various vines, and one of these originated 

 the Cannon Hall Grape. He exhibited it at Versailles about 1822, 

 and as it beat all competitors there he presented a plant of it to the 

 Botanical Society in London, and allowed it to become public property 

 on the understanding that it should be named the ' Cannon Hall Grape.' 

 The original vine came to grief about thirty years ago through a ladder 

 falling on it." We hope this note may do something to preserve 

 the correct name of this delicious grape. 



Old Journals. 



The demand for recent numbers of the R.H.S. Journal has been 

 so great that several of them are quite out of print, and we still have 

 many inquiries for them. Vol. XLIIL, Part I, published in May 1918, 

 Parts 2 and 3 published in February 1919, and Vol. XLIV., published 

 in May 1919, are quite exhausted, and if any Fellow has a copy of 

 either of these which is of no further use to him the Secretary will 

 be greatly obliged if he will send it to the Office at Vincent Square, 

 S.W.i. 



