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second-rate in quality. Having seen and tasted Mr. Fleming’s Grape, 
we are ot opinion that it supplies a desideratum wanting in this class of 
Grapes, or, to say the least of it, it will form a very useful addition. 
The quality of the variety is very rich and vinous, with a full syrupy 
flavour; it is, we understand, a most productive bearer, and, as 
Mr. Fleming observes, appears as hardy as a Currant; and that it 
may be kept tor a very long period after being ripe we have ample 
testimony. The footstalks of this Grape appear to retain their vitality 
long after the berries are ripe, and no doubt it is owing to this property 
that the Trentharn Black keeps fresh and plump long after other Grapes 
with less vitality decay or shrivel. • S. 
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Feb. 2.—The Rev. L. Vernon Harcourt in the chair.—Nineteen new 
Fellows were elected on this occasion. E. A. Brande, Esq., F.H.S., 
Sulhamstead House, Turnham Green, sent a group of six Camellias, 
chiefly standards, all well flowered handsome plants. Among them 
was Mathotiana, a large deep crimson kind, which, within the last few 
years, has been gradually making its way into most collections. The 
last-named variety also came from Messrs. Chandler, who likewise 
contributed Saccoi nova, a pale rose coloured variety, and a neat small 
white kind striped with pink, called Jubilee. From Mr. Glendinning, 
of Chiswick Nursery, came Targioni, a white sort striped with pink, 
and two extremely beautiful new kinds lately introduced from China by 
Mr. Fortune. Of these one, which has been named Princess Frederick 
William, had a white ground colour prettily striped and mottled with 
rose ; the other was called Cup of Beauty. The Mowers of the latter 
are large, incurved, and pure white, with the exception of a faint narrow 
pink streak which ran down the middle of one or two of the petals. 
Both varieties must be regarded as acquisitions. 
The only collection of Hyacinths shown came from Mr. Cutbush, of 
Highgate. The sorts were Prince Frederick, a double pale blue kind ; 
Norma, single delicate pink; Tour d’Auvergne, double white; Baron 
Van Tuyll, single, porcelain blue ; Prince Albert, a single, nearly black 
sort; Mrs. Beecher Stowe, single, rose, with the petals faintly edged 
with white; William the 1st, single, deep blue; Anna Maria, double, 
cream; Grand Vedette, single, large flowered, pale blue; Voltaire, 
single, white; Orondates, single, pale blue; and Pyrene, double 
white. 
Miscellaneous plants were furnished by Messrs. Jackson, of Kings¬ 
ton, in whose collection were Epacrises, two well grown specimens of 
Chinese Primrose, viz., the double white and double lilac, and two 
Orchids, one the East India Calanthe curculigoides, the other Dendro- 
bium moniliforme. Messrs. E. G. Henderson, of the Wellington Road, 
sent Cyclamen Atkin si, a pretty hybrid, of which we gave a coloured 
illustration in a former volume. It was stated to be exactly intermediate 
between two parents, persicum and Coum, and hardy ; from the same 
