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THE FLORIST AND POMOLCGIST. 
Royal Muscadine is a very excellent variety 
for pot-culture, and free-bearing. The fol¬ 
lowing are synonymes of it—viz., Cbasselas 
Napoleon, Queen Victoria, Chasselas de Mon- 
tauban a grains transparents, Chasselas 
de Fontainebleau, and Brutiano. Chasselas 
Croquant is somewhat firmer in the flesh. 
Chasselas de Florence is the same, only 
having a few rose-coloured berries in the 
hunch. Golden Bordeaux resembles the 
Royal Muscadine, but is smaller, and not so 
good. Ciotat is a Royal Muscadine, with 
Parsley-cut leaves. Muscat St. Laurent is 
a very early Grape; the bunches are small, 
the berries also small but sweet, with a mus¬ 
cat flavour. Muscat Ottonell and Oliver’s 
are synonymous with it. Le Mamelon re¬ 
sembles it, but has much more deeply-cut 
leaves. Chasselas Rose de Falloux is of the 
same flavour and character as Royal Musca¬ 
dine, with bright rose-coloured berries. Mus¬ 
cat rouge, Chasselas rouge, Chasselas de 
Negrepont, and Fondante rose are synonymes, 
a little paler than Chasselas Rose de Fal¬ 
loux. SUHward’s Sweetwater is a very good 
variety of Sweetwater, with large berries, 
which sets freely. Diamant Traube is a very 
fine Grape, bunches and berries large, of a 
clear transparency; flesh firm, juicy, and 
rich. Cabral resembles this very much, but 
is inferior to it. Reeves’ Muscadine is a 
very strong-growing variety, berries small, 
beautifully yellow, 1 ich, and pleasant. Chas¬ 
selas Musque is well known. Chasselas Mus¬ 
que de Nantes, Muscat blanc de Berkheim, 
and Muscat Regnier are synonymes of it. 
Cranford Muscat is the same in flavour and 
appearance, but has the reputation of not 
cracking. Duchess of Buccleucli is a very 
long tapering bunch, with small round ber¬ 
ries, in flavour like the Chasselas Musqud. 
Muscat Troveren is a fine Grape, bunches 
large, berries medium-sized, in flavour like 
Chasselas Musque; it does not crack. Foster’s 
White Seedling is a fine Grape, bunches 
large, berries large, clear, and beautiful 
oval; pleasant flavour. Chasselas de Jeru¬ 
salem is Black Hamburgh. Milhaud du 
Pradel is synonymous with (Eillade Noir 
musquS and (Eillade Noir precoce; a very 
excellent variety, berries large, oval, black, 
muscat flavour. Muscat Noir d’Angers is 
synonymous with Muscat Noir d’Eisenstadt, 
a good form of Black Frontignan. Muscat 
Noir d’Hongrie is a small black Grape, with 
a very rich muscat flavour, the highest flavour 
of all the varieties grown. Chasselas Duha- 
mel is a small, round, black Grape, not of 
high flavour. A Grape received from Sir P. 
De Malpas Grey Egerton is a small, oval, 
black variety, of no particular value. No. 65 
(Yeitch), is a small worthless variety of 
Persian Grape, reddish purple. Madeleine 
Royale is a fine variety, larger than the 
Royal Muscadine, ovate, clear, rich, and ex¬ 
cellent. 
Preserving Pelargoniums during Win¬ 
ter.'— Mr. Chauncey, of Lancaster, relates 
his experience in the preservation of Pelar¬ 
goniums during the winter, as follows :— 
“ At the end of autumn I laid in a trench at 
one corner of my garden, for the purpose of 
preservation during the winter, fifty or more 
Tom Thumb Pelargoniums. The trench was 
about 12 inches deep ; the plants were laid in 
and covered with straw, the earth being 
heaped over them, so as to form a covering 
12 or 14 inches thick, and shaped like a roof, 
to allow the water to run off. Towards the 
end of April, the plants were dug out of the 
beds, and though the winter had been very 
severe, they were found to be all alive and 
healthy, except two, which had rotted. 
P OLEMONItJ M CG5RULEUM VARIEGATUM.- 
This is strongly recommended, and well indeed 
it deserves to be, as a beautiful fern-like, 
feathery, silvery plant for the flower garden. 
As Nature tones down her most glowing 
colours, and enhances their beauty a thousand¬ 
fold by contact of cool foliage, and contrast 
of calm neutral tints, so should we reverently 
follow her in our garden grounds, and strive 
to invite and retain the admiring eye, instead 
of startling, dazzling, and wearying it, by a 
continuous and intolerable glare. “ Not a 
leaf to be seen,” has been the unwise boast 
of many a florist in praise of some gorgeous 
specimen; but Nature is justified of her chil¬ 
dren, and never makes a maneless horse. We 
want foliage in all our landscapes, gardens, 
and plants; and for contrast with our glow¬ 
ing Pelargoniums, Verbenas, and Calceolarias, 
as well as with our dark foliage plants, such as 
Coleus, Amaranthus, Iresine, and Perilla, I 
know of nothing more effective or more charm¬ 
ing than this variegated Polemonium. Thus 
saith the well-known “ S. R. H.; ” and, Mr. 
David Thomson adds, that the plant should 
be taken up and housed in a cool place in 
winter, or the variegation will run out. 
Mignonette Dying. —Complaints having 
been made of Mignonette plants dying off 
mysteriously, Mr. Fleming has recommended 
that the ground should be rammed hard, as a 
preventive. It is the same in pot culture; 
the soil should be made as hard as the pots 
will bear. “ The finest plant I have seen,” 
he adds, “ is now growing in the middle of 
an old Pear wall, and hangs down to a length 
of 3 feet, the seed having accidentally been 
blown into a crevice by the wind when I was 
sowing the border. It cannot receive any 
moisture, and is even more healthy than the 
border plants.” 
OBITUARY. 
Mr. Thomas Dawson, lately deceased, was 
for many years head gardener to Earl Cow 
per, at Panshanger, Herts. He will be long 
remembered by gardeners as an exhibitor of 
forced fruits, and occasionally of pot Roses, 
in the cultivation of both of which he was 
