Dear Sir:

I sh: much like you to see a bird I have here, to which the enclosed description refers.¹ I have also a vine I think you would take an interest in. it is the Madresfield Court; a large oval grape, inarched on the Black Hamburgh, both vines growing on their own roots. The type ie, the B Hamburgh. has got the better of the sport, the M Court: the berries on the MC being quite round & the flavour changed to that of the B Hamburgh.² I have several other things which I think would interest you. I see a train leaves Sevenoaks at 2-37. & arrives at Wadhurst at 3-25, where I could send to meet you.³

I find that if the type be cut off from the sport, the sap of the type causes the oval grapes of the sport to be spherical for one year, but not afterwards.

believe me | Y^rs Faithfully | S Newington.