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with small nuts. The rods to prevent bagging should have fully an inch of 
camber. When the wires are tightened up, and keyed where they pass 
through the rods, a nice tight trellis is the result, totally unconnected with 
the roof, and ready to vibrate with the smallest touch of the hand. 
Castle Kennedy , Stranraer. Archibald Fowler. 
WALCHEREN BROCCOLI. 
;A>OR years past this variety has superseded all other autumn Broccoli 
ip here. I agree with Mr. Edlington that the White and Purple Cape 
[gCJ 5 are useful sorts, but neither are equal in sweetness or tenderness to 
the Walcheren. Neither are, I think, the Cape varieties so hardy. 
The Walcheren will stand from 4° to 6° of frost with impunity, and 
it is in all respects equal to the best Cauliflower. In fact, it is the Cauli¬ 
flower so highly commended by Mr. Saul; for although a Cauliflower and 
a Broccoli are offered under the name of the “Walcheren,” they are I 
believe identical. 
My practice is to sow the Walcheren five or sis times, from April to 
the middle of July, and to plant any bit of ground that becomes vacant, 
and can be spared, with it. In mild winters the latest plants have fre¬ 
quently stood over, and come in as spring Cauliflowers. The plantations 
are carefully looked through all the winter months, and as soon as the 
heads are fit for use the plants are taken up, and stored away in cellars or 
pits, where they -will keep good a month or sis weeks. By liberal planting 
and careful storing, we are scarcely ever a day without Broccoli or Cauli¬ 
flower, all the year round. This season the last Walcheren went to table 
about the end of February, and the first of Grange’s Early Cauliflower 
Broccoli in the first week in March. All through November, December, 
and January we had abundance of the Walcheren, from ground that yielded 
good crops of Potatos, Peas, and French Beans. To sum up its merits in 
one word—it is worth more to us than all the other Broccolis put together. 
Hardwiche House , Bury St. Edmunds. B, T. Fish. 
NOTES ON LATE GRAPES. 
GIILE passing recently through some of our late vineries, I fancied 
that some readers of the Florist and Pomologist might feel 
interested to be informed of the keeping qualities of late Grapes. 
We have here a late vinery, with an almost southern aspect, 102 feet 
long, and 18 feet wide, with an outside border unprotected from all 
weathers, rains especially, from which we suffer much. In this house, the 
subject of my remarks, we have twenty-four Vines of the following 
varieties :—Four Lady Downe’s Seedling, four Muscat Hamburgh, two 
Black Alicante, two Burchardt’s Prince, eleven Barbarossa [Gros Guil- 
