A beautiful portrait of this great fruit appears in the last London Florist, with the following description: " This fine grape is a seedling, raised at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, by Mr. Seward Snow, whose great experience and skill in the cultivation of fruits, are well known to our readers. Mr. Snow informs us that this grape originated by fertilizing flowers of the Black Hamburgh vine with those of the White Muscat of Alexandria; and that one of the seedlings from this crossing is the subject of our plate. We believe it was named the Muscat Hamburgh by the Pomological Society, which name very correctly describes its character, for it will at once be obvious to our readers, on examining the plate, that there is a great resemblance to the Hamburgh in form of bunch and berry, as we understand there is also in its habit of growth and earliness; and that its other parent (the Muscat) has imparted that peculiar musky aroma found only in that variety, and which, hitherto, has been confined to white grapes alone.

We can justly congratulate Mr. Snow in having been so fortunate as to originate so noble a grape, and one likely to prove so valuable".

We conclude the notice of this grape by extracting a description of it from a circular sent us by A. Henderson & Go., of the Edgeware Road, who, it appears, hold the English stock of it; see, also, advertisements.

" Mr. Snow has been successful in the production of a Black Hamburgh Grape, with the flavor of the Muscat, having amongst its good qualities the hardy constitution of its parent, the Black Hamburgh. It ripens, and that to the highest state of perfection, in an ordinary peach-house; it is very short-jointed, and a most abundant bearer. The bunches are large and handsome, with fine shoulders. The shape of the berry varies even in the same bunch, sometimes round like the Hamburgh, to oval, like the Muscat. The flesh is melting, and remarkably rich in flavor, fully charged with the aroma of the Muscat, and with an unusually high perfume".

The Trentham Black is another new introduction from Mr. Fleming, of Trent-ham, with a medium-sized bunch, and oval berry. The flavor is very rich, and vinous. It is said to be a good keeper. Mr. Duncan, of Basing Park, who has an excellent reputation, has also two new varieties, of which report speaks well.

Then there is Lady Doune's Seedling (a late black grape), producing fine bunches and oval berries, with a firm flesh, and moderately vinous; hangs well, and will probably supersede the Barbarossa.

The Muscat Hamburgh Grape #1

It will be remembered that this was the variety which took the prize at the Pomological Society, as being the best new grape having a Muscat flavor. At the time the Society made the award, it was stated that this variety would ripen with as low a degree of heat as the Black Hamburgh; but an opinion having got abroad, which is believed by many, that it will not ripen in a house without the aid of fire heat, which the Black Hamburgh will do, considerable disappointment has resulted. It is very satisfactory for us to be able to state, that, at the last meeting of the Pomological Society, Messrs. Henderson, of Pine Apple Place, exhibited a bunch grown upon a shoot, which, during the summer, had been introduced into an ordinary greenhouse, the plant undergoing no cultivation whatever, and receiving no heat, except one evening during the present month, when frost was expected. The berries were quite ripe, and possessed the marked musky flavor.