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ON THE WHITE TOKAY GRAPE. 
are nearly the same. Mr. Ayres asks, if the disease proceeds from an 
over-moist and over-heated atmosphere, would not the syringing and 
shutting up of vineries in the afternoon, produce the same effect as the 
over-heated condensed moisture of the'morning ? To this I would reply 
—no question about it, if the house was the least inclined to be damp. 
The great error which has kept back further discoveries with regard 
to this disease, is, I am inclined to think, the confounding of the two 
together. 
As my paper is exhausted, I will in a future number, if you think 
this worthy of admission, say more on the subject. 
G. T. Dale. 
ON THE WHITE TOKAY GRAPE. 
Sir. —In the last number of your Register, I observe a paper upon 
the management of the White Tokay, or Muscat of Alexandria grape, 
with a view to the well setting of its blossoms. My motive for writing 
this little notice, is to correct the mistake of confounding these two 
grapes, and supposing them to be the same: an error, which, as it 
tends to increase the already too much confused list of grapes, calls for 
immediate correction. 
The White Tokay, really the genuine Tokay (there being but one 
white variety) is a very choice grape, of a vinous flavour ; bunch 
small, very compact with no shoulders: this latter is at once a 
distinguishing feature from the Muscat, which in the extent of its 
shoulders, frequently renders the bunch as broad as long. The wood 
of the Tokay is very white, that of the Muscat is of a rich red brown ; 
the leaf of the former is stiff and very downy, in the latter it is large 
and pendulous. 
At the garden of a nobleman, where I lately lived, (who is well 
known for his excellent taste in the grape,) both varieties grew side by 
side in the same stove; and from recollection I have given this de¬ 
scription. 
Those of your readers who possess Lindley’s Guide to the Orchard 
and Kitchen Garden, will And the Tokay grape accurately described. 
I hope A. B.’s mode of treating the Muscat will be tried by those 
who have the convenience: few grapes set so indifferently; which 
clearly points out the necessity of some peculiar treatment: the same 
with the Black Damascus ; Stilward’s Sweetwater ; both which I have 
seen fail in a lire heat of 70 degrees. The foliage of each seems 
invariably to suffer in a high temperature. 
A Young Gardener. 
