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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ February, 
A. F. Barron. —Avery beautiful variety ; flowers 
of a delicate lilac colour, pips of fine form and 
very double; trusses large. The plant possesses 
a vigorous habit of growth. 
Madame C. Galle. —Flowers beautiful fine white, 
very double and large ; one of the best. 
Lucie Lemoine.—B lush-white, veined on upper 
petals with purplish-lilac ; medium-size trusses and 
flowers, freely produced. A most useful variety. 
Mdlle. A. Baral. —Flowers very double, of a 
light lavender-colour ; pips large and finely formed; 
an improvement on Konig Albert. 
M. Dubus. —A new variety of M. Lemoine’s of 
this season, which promises to be a fine advance on 
those already sent out; flowers of a pretty pinkish 
tint. 
Single Varieties. 
Mrs. H. Cannell. —A superb variety, of robust 
habit, and the grandest stride yet made in the 
ivy-leaf section, producing large and well-formed 
flowers, in noble trusses, each pip quite circular 
and slightly reflexed, which adds greatly to the 
beauty of its form ; it has broad overlapping petals, 
of a beautiful soft lavender-colour. Raised by Mr. 
Church from a variety of his own (Mauve Beauty), 
with pollen from Konig Albert. 
La France (a hybrid of Sisley’s) is also a grand 
variety, carrying gigantic trusses, of a rosy-salmon 
tint; of vigorous constitution, and unlike many of the 
Ivy-leaves, it does not require much supporting by 
sticks, when grown in pots. 
Diadem.— A richly-coloured variety, of a deep 
rosy-purple, produced freely in fine trusses ; it is also 
strong in growth. 
Gem.—B lush-white, with crimson spot on each 
petal; a very pretty variety. 
Progress.- —Beautiful bright pink; free-blooming 
and attractive. 
Nemesis. —Crimson ; dwarf, and free-flowering. 
Bridal Wreath. —An excellent variety, with pure 
white flowers, and pale green foliage. 
W illsii rosea. —Rosy-scarlet; a fine old variety, 
produced by a cross between the ivy-leaf and the 
zonal; blooms freely. 
Innocence.- —Fine large flowers of a pure white, 
feathered in the upper petals with deep crimson- 
maroon. 
Dolly Varden is a most beautiful variety of the 
bronze-zoned type, with rosy-scarlet flowers, and is 
of short stiff habit, making it a most useful and 
splendid variety for bedding purposes. 
— T. Moore. 
THE COLOURING AND Pre¬ 
serving OF GRAPES. 
S LL wlio have made the experiment of 
ripening early in September those 
Grapes which are expected to be in 
use during April or May, are aware that, as a 
rule, those which are “ finished ” while there 
is plenty of sun to warm the air, keep much 
better, and retain their flavour in a much 
greater degree, than those which are ripened 
in the dull, short, and damp days, later in the 
the season. When I say “ finished,” I do not 
mean that they should be merely fully swelled 
and highly coloured, but rather that when 
these desirable qualifications are visible, firing 
with plenty of air should be continued till the 
berries are well charged with sugar, quite firm 
and crackling. Then the fire may be gradually 
withdrawn, and used only to expel damp, and 
keep the thermometer from falling below 40°, 
till all the foliage has fallen, after which the 
bottling may be done, in the usual form. 
I have noticed, over a period of twenty years’ 
experience in keeping grapes till spring, that 
those keep soundest which are most highly 
coloured and best coated with bloom; and 
that grapes from vines which are cropped 
beyond their powers of proper maturation, and 
are unfinished, through the absence of sugar 
in the berry, never keep satisfactorily. I have 
here had a singular experience during this 
season and last in the ripening of grapes. 
Last season, the Gros Colmar (several other 
late kinds are in the same house) ripened 
quickly, and the berries were coloured in about 
three weeks from the commencement; they 
proved to be thick-skinned and were moderately 
well flavoured. The past season they began 
colouring in August, and kept changing almost 
imperceptibly till November, and at last finished 
splendidly, the flavour excellent, and the berries 
large.—M. T. 
VINES AND VINE-CULTURE. 
Chap. XVIII.— The Varieties of Grapes.— 
(' Continued .) 
IIE descriptions of the several varieties 
of Grapes included in the synoptical 
table already published ( Florist and 
Pomologist , 1879, 1G2-3), and of the historical 
and cultural notes proposed to be added, are 
here continued from page 10. 
Angers Frontignan (46). —- A round 
black Muscat Grape.— Synonyms : Muscat noir 
d’Angers, Muscat noir des Pyrenees, Muscat 
noir tardif, Muscat noir d’Eisenstadt, Caillaba. 
Vine-Growth free, moderately robust, producing 
sliort-jointed wood, with large prominent buds ; very 
fruitful. Leaves roundish, of medium size, dying off 
with a slightly reddish tinge. 
Fruit.—Bunches medium-sized and very compact, 
with small shoulders ; the berries very closely and 
well set. Berries small, roundish. Skin purplish- 
black, with a thick bloom. Flesh firm, yet tender 
and juicy, very sweet, and rich, with a strong 
Muscat or Frontignan flavour. 
History, fyc. —Raised at Angers, by M. Vibert. It 
has been grown at Chiswick for some years, but is 
not in very general cultivation. 
Cultural Notes. —Succeeds very well in an ordinary 
vinery, requiring the same treatment as Black Ham¬ 
burgh, and in good seasons ripening very fairly on 
the open wall. Excellent for pot-culture. 
Season. —Early. 
Merits .—First-class as to flavour; an improve¬ 
ment on the Black Frontignan, which it resembles, 
