. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. erhaps, be in the recollec-tion of some of your readers that I stated in your columns that I had sent eyes from a shoot producedfrom the same spur, during the following season, toMr. W. Thomson, of the Tweed Vineyard, at Cloven-ford ; and I think that he has stated that he succeededin striking them, so that it is possible that some ofthe plants so raised may now be bearing fruit, and, ifso, it will be very interesting to know if the fruitdiffers in any degree from the true Trebbiano doubt Mr.
. The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. erhaps, be in the recollec-tion of some of your readers that I stated in your columns that I had sent eyes from a shoot producedfrom the same spur, during the following season, toMr. W. Thomson, of the Tweed Vineyard, at Cloven-ford ; and I think that he has stated that he succeededin striking them, so that it is possible that some ofthe plants so raised may now be bearing fruit, and, ifso, it will be very interesting to know if the fruitdiffers in any degree from the true Trebbiano doubt Mr. Thomson will kindly furnish thisinformation. It will be distinctly understood that theshoot from which Mr. Thomson had eyes bore nofruit, but was produced by the same spur which hadproduced the shoot which bore the remarkable bunchduring the former season. As regards the bunch ofthe present season I may stale that the berries compos-ing it are now (August 14) at least twice the size ofthe berries of the Trebbiano variety growing upon thesame rod ; and the fruit of the former appears to be. Fig. 46. A, Stem of Wests St. Peters Vine ; u, Showing where it wasgrafted with Black Alicante; c, Showing height of frontwall ; D, H, The Black Alicante stem grafted at the pointr with G, Trebbiano ; n. Golden Champion (removed) ; and1. Mrs. Pinces Black Muscat ; k, Indicates the position onthe Trebbiano rod where the bunch of Golden Championwas produced. rapidly approaching a ripe condition, which is veryfar from being the case as regards the latter. For the benefit of those of your readers who maynot have read the correspondence which took placeupon this subject, or who having read it may nowhave forgotten all about it, I will, with your permis-sion, as briefly as possible, recapitulate the circum-stances of the case, which are as follows :—Sometwenty-five years ago a house here was planted witha variety of the Grape Vine known as Wests , at that time considered one of the best
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