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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
should be removed from the pit or frame where they have been wintered, and 
they may either be plunged with the pots in a warm south border, where they 
will flower well, or they may be placed on the shelves of a greenhouse or any 
other situation where they w'ill have plenty of light and air. They should be 
regularly attended to in watering, and in due time they will reward the culti¬ 
vator with the charming variety, beauty, and splendour of their delightful 
flowers. The bulbs should be properly attended to in watering until the 
foliage naturally shows symptoms of decay, water must then be gradually 
withheld from them. When in a state of rest they should be kept dry. 
The following list contains some of the most distinct and showy kinds of 
the different genera of Cape bulbous Iridacese :— 
Anomatheca cruenta 
Ixia Annais 
Ixia opbir 
Sparaxis stellaris 
Babiana angustifolia 
Annetti 
odorata 
tricolor 
atro-cyanea 
aristata 
Patens 
versicolor 
bicolor 
aulica 
Plutus 
Streptantbus elegans 
coccinea 
aurantiaca 
purpurea elegans 
Tricbonema rosea 
corymbosa 
Brutus 
rosea maculata 
speciosa 
distieba 
Bucephalus 
rosea multiflora 
Tritonia aurea 
hirta 
Campana 
rosea plena 
crocata 
ignea 
capitata 
conica 
stellata 
concolor 
longiflora 
sulpburea 
den ota 
plicata 
Csesar 
Titus 
fenistrata 
purpurea 
coccinea 
Viola 
furcata 
ringens 
delia 
viridiflora 
lineata 
rubro-cyanea 
Dinah 
Lapeyrousia corym- 
rosea 
sulpburea 
eminens 
bosa 
squalida 
tubiflora 
erecta 
Morea ciliata 
Yiesseuxia glacopis 
Thunbergii 
Emperor of China 
edulis 
pavonia 
villosa 
Gazella 
ramosa 
villosa 
Gladiolus byzantinus 
Golden Star 
Spilantbes speciosa 
Watsonia alctroides 
cardinalis 
Hortense 
Sparaxis bicolor 
angusta 
Col villi 
Laura 
bulbifera 
brevifolia 
communis 
lilacina 
crocata 
fulgida 
floribundus 
maculata 
fragrans 
marginata 
Gandavensis 
magnifica 
grandiflora 
Meriana 
insignia 
multiflora 
grandiflora striata 
rosea alba 
psittacinus 
Nora 
maculata 
spicata 
ramosus* 
iStourtoti. 
nubienis lutea 
rosea punctata 
M Saul. 
ANOTHER CHAPTER ON GRAPES. 
I see that the Fruit Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society nave been 
worthily fulfilling their mission, by reporting on the varieties of “ Muscat,” and 
other sorts grown at Chiswick. According to their report, after comparing all the 
hinds known and named as Muscats, they have decided that no real difference 
exists in many of the varieties, and that the Canon Hall and one or two others 
are all that they can specify as distinct in character. In the Florist and Poiio- 
logist for April, 1862, page 51, will be found the same opinion, which I advanced 
in an article on Grapes, and is as follows :— 
“ Respecting the different varieties of Muscat and Black Hamburgh Grapes, 
1 believe they are fewer in number than is generally supposed, and that they are 
so altered by superior cultivation, that names have been given them when not 
really distinct. The only really distinct sort of Muscat that I know of, and 
which no cultivation will alter, is the Canon Hall Muscat, and, perhaps, the 
Bowood for its free setting. The different varieties of Black Hamburghs are 
likewise numerous, and, like the Muscats, are so much altered by good cultivation 
in the size of the bunches and berries, that old sorts are often named anew after 
* There are a great number of very beautiful hybrids, all of which are well worth cultivation. 
