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Stoneless Round-berried. See White Corinth. 
Striped Muscadine. See Aleppo. 
Syrian (Palestine; Jew's; Terre de la Promise ).— 
Bundles immensely large, broad-shouldered, and conical. 
Berries large, oval. Skin thick, greenish-white, changing 
to pale yellow when quite ripe. Flesh firm and crackling, 
sweet, and, when well ripened, of good flavour. 
This is a very good late grape, and generally produces 
bunches weighing from 7 lbs. to 10 lbs.; but, to obtain 
the fruit in its greatest excellence, the vine requires to 
be grown in a hothouse, and planted in very shallow, dry, 
sandy soil. Speechly states that he grew a bunch at 
Welbec.k weighing 20 lbs., and measuring 21f inches long 
and 191 inches across the shoulders. It is a strong 
grower and an abundant bearer. 
Terre de la Promise. See Syrian. 
Teta de Yaca. See Cornichon Plane. 
Tokai Musque. See Chasselas Masque. 
Tokay. —The Hungarian wine, called Tokay, is not 
produced from any particular description of grape, nor 
grown in any particular vineyard; the name is applied 
to all wine grown on the hills of Zemplen, of which Tokay 
is the chief; and the ground so cultivated extends over 
seven or eight square leagues of surface. The name 
Tokay is, therefore, applicable to many varieties of grapes, 
and it has thus been applied to several varieties in this 
country. But there is one which, being distinct from 
all the others, I have described under the name of White 
Tolcay, which see. 
Tottenham Park Muscat. See Muscat of Alexandria. 
Tkebbiano (Trebbiano Pianco; Trebbiano Vero ; Prba- 
lus; UgniPlanc). —Bunches very large, broad-shouldered, 
and well set. Berries medium sized, roundish-oval, some¬ 
times oval and sometimes almost round. Skin thick, 
tough, and membraneous, somewhat adhering to the 
flesh; greenish-white, covered with a very delicate bloom. 
Flesh Arm and crackling, sweet and richly flavoured 
when well ripened. 
This is a late gfrape, requiring the same heat and treat¬ 
ment as the Muscats, and will hang as late as the end of 
March. It requires fire heat in September and October 
to ripen it thoroughly before winter sets in. I have seen 
bunches of this 14 inches long and 10 inches across. 
(To be continued.) 
NEW BOOKS. 
Manual of Practical Gardening.*— We have here in a 
book of 384. pages, a concise, and, at the same time, sufficiently 
comprehensive treatise on practical and landscape gardening, 
written in a style intelligible to the most ordinary capacity. The. 
instructions are sound, and to the point, without that diffuseness 
of detail which more frequently bewilder than enlighten the gar¬ 
dening student. Let us take, for example, the paragraph on 
“Waste op Fertilising Material. Waste is no uncommon 
thing ; large heaps of dung receive all the rain, washing its juices 
through, and the moisture running down the gutters and ditches 
as black as treacle, not only from the dung-yards of market or 
gentlemen’s gardens, but even those of large farmers; whereas 
this liquid, if suffered to drain into a tank, would be invaluable. 
It would often bear ten times its quantity of plain water, and 
form an excellent liquid manure; although, if applied in its 
original state, it would be destructive on account of its extraordi¬ 
nary strength. All composts should, on account of this operation 
of rain, be placed in heaps sloping enough to throw off the wet; 
and manures of all kinds that quickly absorb, and as rapidly 
give out moisture. In short, everything that has any fertilising 
qualities to wash away should be on a paved space with drains 
running to a common tank; and a pump, or some other con¬ 
trivance, should be placed there to obtain the liquid as it is 
wanted.” 
* Glenny’s Manual of Practical Gardening. London: Iloulston and 
Wright. 
The Wild Elowebs op England.* —This is a very beau¬ 
tiful, very truthful, and very useful little book, and we fully 
believe, as stated in the preface to this new edition, that “ many 
readers perceived new beauties, and acquired new associations 
which made their meeting with our favourite field flowers more 
interesting, and more joyous,” since they perused its pages. That 
our readers may judge for themselves, we extract the following :— 
“THE FORGET-ME-NOT. 
“ Myosotis ; L. Gremillet ou Scorpionne; Fr. Vergiss mein nicht; Ger. 
Kruidig muizenoor ; Dutch. Orecchio de topo ; It at. Miosota ; Sp. 
Myosota; Port. Dukowka; Puss. Forgjiet mig ej; Dan. 
‘ That name, it speaks in accents dear 
Of love, and hope, and joy, and fear; 
It softly tells an absent friend 
That links of love should never rend ; 
Its whispers waft on swelling breeze, 
O’er hill, and dale, by land and seas, 
Forget-me-not! 
1 Gem of the rill! we love to greet 
Thy blossoms smiling at onr feet. 
We fancy to thy flow’ret given 
A semblance of the azure heaven ; 
And deem thine eye of gold to be 
The star that gleams so brilliantly.’ 
BOUQUET DES SOUVENIRS. 
“ The romantic story with which the Forget-me-not is con¬ 
nected has made it known to thousands who, perhaps, would 
never otherwise have become acquainted with its existence. In¬ 
dependent, however, of the fame thus attached to it, when once 
seen and noticed, its own beauty would gain for it a place in the 
memory. The bright blue of the flowers, and their rich golden 
centres, render them individually an object to be admired ; and as 
they gradually unfold themselves at the curled extremity of the 
stem, where they are ranged in two rows, and alternately, on foot¬ 
stalks, their appearance is truly beautiful; but when the plants in 
bloom are so numerous as to form a sort of fringe on the margin 
of a rivulet, as we have seen them, words cannot convey an 
adequate idea of the effect. They are, in truth, very ornamental 
to our streams and ditches, and cannot fail to win the favour of 
every rambler who strolls where is Been, 
‘ By rivulet, or spring, or wet road-side, 
That blue and bright-ey’d flow-ret of the brook, 
Hope’s gentle gem, the sweet “ Forget-me-not.” ’ 
“ The incident already referred to as having rendered this 
flower so well known, and which we aro told gave rise to its 
present name, is said to have occurred on the banks of the 
Danube. Two betrothed lovers were strolling along, on a 
pleasant summer’s evening in the delightful month of June, 
engaged in agreeable and affectionate conversation, when they ob¬ 
served the pretty flower of the Water Scorpion Grass apparently 
floating on the water. The bride elect looked upon the flower 
with admiration, and, supposing it to be detached, regarded it as 
being carried to destruction; her lover, regretting its fate, and 
wishing to preserve it, was induced to jump into the river ; but 
as he seized the flower, he sunk beneath the stream : making a 
final effort, he threw the flower on the bank, repeating, as ho was 
sinking for the last time, the words “ Vergiss mich nicht.” Since 
this event, the Germans have called the flower Vergissmeinnicht, 
and we, translating the word, Forget-me-not. 
“ The circumstance whence this flower derived its name, and the 
name itself, have made it a favourite with German poets. Goethe, 
in his ‘ Lay of the Imprisoned Knight,’ represents it to be the 
choice flower of the lady whose praises are rehearsed. Wo insert 
Lord F. Loveson Gower’s translation of these lines:— 
‘ Ah ! well I know the loveliest flower, 
The fairest of the fair, 
Of all that deck my lady’s bower, 
Or bind her floating hair. 
‘ Not on the mountain’s shelving side, 
Nor in the cultivated ground, 
Nor in the garden’s painted pride, 
The flower I seek is found. 
‘ Where time on sorrow’s page of gloom 
Has fixed his envious lot, 
Or swept the record from the tomb, 
It says, Forget-me-not. 
* And this is still the loveliest flower, 
The fairest of the fair, 
Of all that deck my lady’s bower. 
Or bind her floating hair.’ 
“ The Forget-me-not grows on the banks of the Avon, and an 
* The TYild Flowers of England, or Favourite Field Flowers popularly 
described. By the Rev. R. Tyas, M.A., &e. With twelve highly-coloured 
groups of flowers by J. Andrews, F.H.S. London: Houlston and Wright. 
