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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ March, 
for trees that blossom early in the spring, as in that aspect early blossom is very 
liable to be injured by frost and cutting winds. 
Where there is a great extent of wall, as is the case at Hatfield, it is advisable 
to plant trees of the same kinds against different aspects. This is the better way 
to secure a crop, and the fruit will ripen in succession, and thus prolong the 
season. It is likewise a good plan to plant the early-blooming kinds together, 
for those trees that bloom some three or four weeks in advance of the others, will 
require a greater amount of protection ; and if early and late-fiowering kinds are 
mixed indiscriminately together, the late sorts that do not require protection so 
early, will be injured by excessive covering.— Edward Bennett, Gardener to the 
Marquis of Salishurij^ Hatfield House, Herts. 
ON KEEPING LATE GRAPES. 
bunches, consisting of Muscat of Alexandria, Alicante, and Lady Downe’s 
^ Seedling. We put them in bottles filled with clear water, without char¬ 
coal or anything else put into the water, which, notwithstanding, was perfectly 
sweet when emptied out. The Grapes were put in a room over the hall kitchen, 
and kept quite dark ; no fire was lighted in the room, as, in consequence of the 
heat from the kitchen below, it was all that could be desired for the purpose. The 
mean temperature of the room was about 45°—quite enough to exclude frost and 
damp, both of which are very damaging to ripe Grapes. 
I found that this method of keeping Grapes effected a great saving of fuel, as 
we kept some of them nearly two months without any expense, the last of the Lady 
Downe’s being used only a few days since (February 14), and they were then as 
fresh as when first cut from the vines. The Alicantes kept equally as well, but the 
