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tignan, and with small shoulders. Berries large and 
round. Skin dark purple, covered with thick blue bloom. 
Flesh juicy, very richly flavoured, and with a Muscat 
aroma which is less powerful than in Black Frontignan. 
This is a most delicious grape, and requires to be grown 
in a warm vinery. It is the Black or Purple Frontignac 
of Speedily ; but is very different from what is generally 
cultivated for Black Frontignan—that variety being the 
Blue or Violet Frontignac of Speechly. 
Pukple Fontainbleau. — I have never seen this grape, 
but Mr. Kivers speaks of it as a very hardy variety, 
ripening against a wall in the open air; well adapted for 
pot culture, and a prodigious bearer. The berries are 
oval, light purple, sweet, and juicy. 
Purple Frontiguan. See Purple Constantia. 
Baisin d’Alep. See Aleppo. 
Raisin d’Autriche. See Ciotat. 
Baisin de Calabre. See Calabrian Baisin. 
Baisin des Cannes. See West’s St. Peter s. 
Baisin de Cuba. See West’s St. Peter’s. 
Baisin de Frontignan. See White Frontignan. 
Baisin du Pauvre. See Gromier du Cantal. 
Baisin Precoce. See Blacjc July. 
Baisin de St. Jean. See St. Johns. 
Baisin de Servie. See Gromier du Cantal. 
Baisin Suisse. See Aleppo. 
Bed Chasselas [Bed Muscadine; Chasselas Benge; 
Cliasselas Bouge Fence ; Cerese; Septembro). — Bunches 
medium sized, loose, rarely compact, shouldered; with 
long, thin, and somewhat reddish stalks. Berries medium 
sized, round. Skin thin, red, covered with a violet bloom. 
Flesh juicy and sweet. The vine is a great bearer, and 
will ripen its fruit in a cool vinery. The most remark¬ 
able character of this variety is, that from the time the 
germ is visible, or, as Mr. Elvers says, “no bigger than 
a pin’s head, it changes to red,” and it becomes gradually 
paler as the fruit ripens. Mr. Bivers says, “ it is as 
good as Boyal Muscadine when fully ripe, and a great 
bearer.” 
Bed Frontignan ( Grizzly Frontignan; Muscat Gris; 
Muscat Bouge; Moscatel Menudo; Cevana Dinka; Bother 
Muskateller; Grauer Muskutaller). —Bunches large,long, 
and generally cylindrical, but occasionally with very 
small shoulders. Berries above medium size, round. 
Skin rather thick, yellow on the shaded side, clouded with 
pale red on the side next the sun, and covered with grey 
bloom. Flesh rather firm, juicy, but not very melting, 
with a rich, sugary, and musky flavour. 
Bipens about the end of September when not forced, 
and requires the heat of a warm vinery. 
Bed Hamburgh. See Black Hamburgh. 
Bed Muncy. See Cataivba. 
Bed Muscadel. See Morocco. 
Bed Muscadine. See Bed Chasselas. 
Bed Muscat of Alexandria. See Black Muscat of 
Alexandria. 
Bed Bhenish. See Lombardy. 
Bed Taurida. See Lombardy. 
Biciimond Villa. — This is a variety of Black Ham¬ 
burgh, colouring, but not ripening some days earlier than 
-the old sort, and very much inferior to it in flavour; 
inferior, also, to Black Tripoli in flavour. 
Bossea. See Barbarossa. 
Bother Muskateller. See Bed Frontignan. 
(To le continued.) 
TASTE IN DESIGNING FLOWEE GABDENS, 
WITH A FEW WOBDS ON THEIB OBNA- 
MENTATION. 
There are, perhaps, few persons, who are in possession of a 
plot of ground, who do not gradually become fascinated by the 
charms of rural life and its occupations; who do not make essays 
in the pursuit of horticulture ; and who, however small the space 
allotted to them may be, attempt to give it an expression of design. 
Not only do they display their peculiar “taste,” but combine this 
with recollections of what Mr. A. has done at B., or the fine 
heart-shaped bed of Love-lies-bleeding, at Paxton Villa, Highgate. 
In progress of time, a Maltese cross is added, as well as two half¬ 
moon-shaped beds, and one or two which are bounded by right 
| lines, and are multangular. Our good friend has heard that 
Nature abhors a straight line; and so in making his walks ho 
avoid? taking the courses which are dictated by common sense, 
and makes the most circuitous be'ncls without anything to account 
for them! 
We pity the unhappy visitor who is doomed to walk round, 
and pour out his laudations on tho “ taste” exhibited by the 
gifted proprietor of Fungus Cottage. In passing along, he has 
the most ample evidence of the “ taste” of his friend exemplified 
in the varied lines and forms of his beds, the vagaries of his walks, 
the profusion of his statuettes, his fountains, grottoes, mounds 
of roots, and roekwork; and last, but not least, his busts of 
Socrates, Epaminondas, and Demosthenes; not to mention 
Venus and Apollo ; with some corbels from the old Abbey, and 
a pinnacle of the church tower, which are placed close to a rustic 
basket in a state of incipient decay ! 
This picture of a villa residence is by no means overdrawn ; 
and although there are many bright and honourable exceptions 
to be met with, it is most strange, and passing strange, to see the 
incongruous and discordant parts which people collect together to 
form an harmonious whole. No greater mistake is made than in 
the mixture of elegant stone vases and tazzas with (hosefragile and 
rude materials called rustic baskets. The former, chaste in 
elegant design, are emblematic of the most advanced stage of 
progress in art, and convey every idea of durability and continuity ; 
while the others are only semi-barbaric, in an artistieal point of 
view, and are almost as evanescent. as the flowers they are in¬ 
tended to hold. 
Even if buildings, vases, statuary, and other artificial works, 
are constantly recurring in very extensive gardens, they do not 
produce the variety which i3 sought for; but, as at that magnifi¬ 
cent place, Alton Towers, they produce endless monotony. So 
many objects, having different expression, cannot form the har¬ 
monious whole that should bo. They are the costly evidences 
of great wealth made subservient to empirical taste. Let us 
instance Stowe as a place on a truly grand scale. Here every 
temple is part of the great design of the general whole, most 
perfect in itself, and perfect in all its parts; a complete chef d’oeuvre. 
No one can wish to mistake a garden for anything but a work 
of art—a work in which beautiful forms and lines are recognised, 
while all its parts correspond so exactly, that the removal of any 
one of them would derange the whole. As a rule, it may be laid 
down that curved lines are more beautiful than straight ones, j 
We associate the qualities of beauty in tho feminine form, of 
delicacy, of fineness, and of tenderness with them; while angular 
lines are expressive of roughness, strength, tenacity, and maturity, 
as instanced in the limbs of old trees, and the forms of solid 
masses of rock. 
In disposing the area of a small garden, it will bo all-important 
to consider well the production of harmony of expression ; and I 
to make such arrangements only as will assist in carrying out the 
objects in view. As to ornaments, it is better to have few of 
them than to fill the place with those of incongruous character ; 
many of which would be as much out of place as a Goth in one I 
of the saloons of Paris. 
It is most important, also, to obserye that want of breadth is 
one of the most common errors in amateur designs. The constant 
spotting over of lawns without attention to producing massive 
effects by grouping, and the frequent shutting up retiring verclaut 
glades by plants, are sources of much mischief in this respect. 
In every place there ought to be one or two leading breadths of 
as much extent as possible : and if an aerial distance can be got 
at tho same time, it will much enhance the effect by leading the 
spectator to suppose that the property is most extensive in that 
direction. 
Great care should be taken to avoid that regular mixture of 
shrubs and trees which is too often practised, and which produces 
the most perfect monotony : it is far better that one kind should 
prevail here, and another there—a system which produces true 
variety. When one passes from a grove of Elms to one of Beech, 
and again to one of Oaks, one feels that “ a change has come o’er 
the spirit” of the scene; but where Oaks, Beech, and Elms are 
mixed it is all sameness. 
