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partial manner to the inhabitauts of Britain. As there is never 

 anywhere a certainty of man's labour being crowned with success, we 

 are forced by the exceptions we experience to consider this a favoured 

 isle, and see in our lot, even at the darkest times, reasons for thank- 

 tulness and praise to the Giver of all good, who teaches us ao-ain and 

 again that " of ourselves we can do nothing," and that therefore we 

 must put our trust in Illm. With our deficient harvest and our 

 scanty potato crop, the land abounds with food, and our commerce 

 extends its range, and a thousand lar-ofF fruitful fields are readv to 

 pour their treasures into the lap of Britain. We need not be east 

 down, therefore, though the sky be overcast, but may proceed with 

 our abours in Iiope, remembering that though Paul may plant and 

 Apollos may water, yet it is God alone who gives the increase 



GRAPES FOR THE MILLION.— No. YI. 



COiSrCLUDING THE SERIES. 



S it was intended only to offer a few sketches of cheap 

 methods of growing grapes, it is not needful to extend 

 this series beyond the present. The subject of grape 

 culture may be said to be inexhaustible, for every variety 

 has a history, and every cultivator has something to say 

 about_ successes and faihires diftering in some respects from ordinary 

 experiences. Yet if the production of first-class samples of certain 

 tl^e inost useful varieties is the aim of the cultivator, he has not 

 much to learn; and after all it is as easy to grow grapes as scarlet 

 geraniums, and, to many, a much more pleasant and profitable occu- 

 pation. This last communication on the subject will be bri^f but I 

 trust, not less useful than any of the preceding. Its object is'simp'ly 

 to bring before our readers a figure of the most useful grape house 

 tor plain people, which it has been my lot to meet with durin^- a louc^ 

 and active experience in the midst of horticultural activities." 



When visiting, m the company of my excellent friend Mr W 

 Kobmson, the gardens at Cyfarthfo Castle, Merthyr-Tydvil in 

 August last, we were entertained by our generous host, e'. T 

 l^rawshay, Esq., with an inspection of an extensive series of vineries 

 and pmeries extending over nearly four acres of land. The vineries 

 were, m many instances, constructed on a scale of real magnificence 

 We saw ranges of two hundred feet length, with an almost unpre- 

 cedented length of rafter and extensive borders covered with glass, 

 heated with hot- water pipes, and thence downward, houses on every 

 imaginable scale, severally apportioned to collections of vines in 

 classes, securing to every class the precise treatment required for 

 perfect success The pineries were still more extensive, and con- 

 tained thousands of plants, everywhere evincing the skilful treatment 

 they receiv-eat the hands of Mr. Hanua, who superintends the fruit 

 department m this princely establishment. The crop of grapes was 

 everywhere good ; muscats well done ; all the good old yarieties were 

 seen at their best ; the fiuit in the early houses having of course lon^r 



