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THE GARDENING WORLD. 
October 17, 1908. 
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6difotdal, 
Su&pas feom 'WisUij. 
On the 29th September a splendid ex¬ 
hibit of thirty-one varieties of Grapes 
was brought up from the gardens of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, at Wisley, 
and placed on a long table at the meeting 
on that date. In most cases, there were 
two bunches of each variety and in all 
cases the bunches were in splendid form, 
only a few of them not being quite fin¬ 
ished. No doubt, they had been placed 
there to show the collection of Vines 
already at Wisley. 
The Grapes were a great credit to the 
grower or rather the superintendent, Mr. 
S. T. Wright, seeing that the gardens so 
recently came into the possession of the 
Society. We remember when the Oak- 
wood garden, of the late Mr. G. I. Wil¬ 
son, was being put up for auction for 
the second time on May 6th, 1903, after 
having failed to find a purchaser in 
January of the same year. The story ’S, 
of course, well known that the sixty acres 
of ground were purchased by the late Sir 
Thomas Hanbury and presented to the 
Society. After taking possession it was 
necessary to lay out certain portions of 
the ground at least afresh and to build 
houses before the Vines could be planted. 
The Vines cannot yet be over three or 
four years old and the collection is al¬ 
ready both large and representative. 
It is needless to mention all the var¬ 
ieties that were shown; suffice it to say 
that all the popular varieties grown, 
either in private places or by market 
gardeners, were present in good form. 
There were, however, several Grapes of 
great interest, including the Black Mon- 
ukka, which is seedless and the berry 
quite unique in shape, being ovoid. It 
was, of course, in the collection at Chis¬ 
wick. Other varieties were Duchess of 
Buccleuch, Directeur Tisserand, Syrian, 
Trebbiano, Chasselas Napoleon, Prince 
of Wales, Muscat of Alexandria, Grizzly 
Frontignan, and various others. Direc¬ 
teur Tisserand reminded us very forcibly 
of the old Frankenthal, but was possibly 
a bigger berry, but hammered on the top 
much in the same way. Syrian is an 
interesting white Grape, seeing that it 
may possibly have been the variety which 
the'spies brought back to Moses -from the 
Helenium autumnale is a very variable 
plant, and, according to our experience, 
is less common in private gardens than 
several of its varieties, of which there are 
a number in gardens. The variety, H.a. 
pumilum is especially valuable to gar¬ 
dens, large or small. It is of dwarfer 
habit than the others, with much larger 
flowers than most of them, and keeps 
flowering over a much longer period of 
time. It is, therefore, useful in small 
gardens where tall plants would be inad¬ 
missible. The same effect, or even better, 
can be produced by this dwarf habited 
plant, which may be grown in borders or 
as an edging to borders or beds. The 
accompanying illustration shows the 
general appearance of a few cut sprays. 
As they last well in water, the plant, 
therefore, comes in useful for cut flower 
Land of Promise Trebbiano is al 
interesting from the fact that it produo 
the heaviest bunch on record in tl 
country, namely, 265 lbs. Grizzly Fro 
tignan may be regarded as a fancy Gra]: 
having a flavour which is very agreeah 
to some. Its dull purple colour is if 
much to look at, so that it may be 1 
garclcd as a fancy Grape to be cultivat 
by the few. The bunches, in most case 
were of large and handsome size for th - 
kind. 
purposes, and can be used with its cn 
ioliage, so that it requires no garnishi 
It is one of the easiest plants to pro.- 
gate, because if planted in fairly f ■. 
well-tilled soil, it will make numerj.s 
crowns during the course of the sumnr, 
and in autumn the whole crown can e 
dug up and pulled to pieces if morepf 
them are wanted. By doing the wcrljn 
autumn, at any time after the plant Its 
ceased to bloom, the small pieces cache 
established in the soil before the advafce 
of winter, and they bloom next year 11.- 
if nothing had happened. It is an advn 
tage to lift the plants in this manned: 
not annually, at least once in two vers 
so that the plants may get the advangt 
of freshly dug soil. That opportu|t\ 
can be taken for manuring the gro'ic 
and trenching it if need be. 
A Useful Border Flowe' 
(Helenium autumnale pumilum). 
