332 THE, FLORIST. 
Duc de Malakef.—This variety sets better and is a finer daeeee 
with us than the Sweetwater. Pie 
To. show how liable, the Vine, like many other Kinds of fruit, 1 33 
sport, and produce what may be called sub-varieties, we have a "sido 
Hamburgh which, three years back, produced, about half way “up 
the house, a shoot with decidedly different foliage, the lobes being 1 much 
sharper cut, and curled, with footstalks considerably thickened at their 
base and shorter than on the rest of the Vine—hearing, in fact, a close 
resemblance to the Champion, Hamburgh. The following. year, and 
ever since, this shoot has produced Grapes also very different from what 
are growing on the same rod below where the new growth commenced. 
The berries are much, larger (twice the size), the bunches shoulderless, 
altogether resembling the Champion Hamburgh. We have’ not ‘yet 
propagated this sport, thinking it would go. hack. to the original. form 
again; but as this is the third, season of the change, and there appears 
every evidence, looking at the appearance of the wood, that the sport 
will continue permanent, we. intend raising a. few, plants’ this next 
season from both portions of the Vine, by way of more completely 
testing the permanency of the alteration.in character. May not the 
Champion Hamburgh and other sub-varieties of Grapes have originated 
in the same way ?. We must now postpone all further notices for the 
present ; in the meantime we strongly advise. every fruit grower to 
make Dr. Hogg’s Fruit, Manual his pocket. poTAP ASP at once. 
LETTERS FROM THE ‘CONTINENT, 
FLORENCE. 
‘THERE are,” says an accomplished American, “but two styles of 
laying out gardens, or more properly, pleasure grounds—one English 
the other Italian.” Whatever changes have been introduced in other 
countries are but modifications of these two eta The difference in 
them is the result mainly of differences of climate, and of consequent 
diversity of habits and tastes. The Englishman living in a climate of 
uniform coolness, is led to form habits of active exercise; and he 
delights to surround his dwelling-place with such, adornments as his 
means will allow, so that his walks and rides may be as extensive as 
possible. His house becomes only a small part of the landscape, and 
he brings the greenness and wildness of nature as near as possible to 
his very door. He disposes of his trees and shrubs in such a way as 
to banish the idea of formality, and to.create the impression that they 
have been sown by the hand of Nature herself. Living under a gray 
and overclouded sky, where lights and shadows rapidly alternate, and 
gleams of watery sunshine fall in broken fragments, he is obliged to 
forego the sudden contrasts of broad masses of light and shade, and to 
seek that general effect, the combination of many particulars, which 
requires a large space to be produced. ‘The moisture of the English 
climate is also favourable to the growth of trees and shrubs, and is the 
immediate cause of that exquisite verdure which is the great charm of 
