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Beech, Hornbeam, Mountain Ash, Willow, <fec. These planted close together in a line, formin 

 the back and sides of the purposed arbor, the front being in general left open, are bent over at 

 the tops to form the roof, and tied together to keep tliera in their proper places. Sometimes the 

 stems are crossed in trellis fashion, and after a time they unite by a species of natural engrafting, 

 and become exceedingly strong, and will last for years. 



Fig. 2 represents a Gothic rustic arbor, or resting-place ; the basement to be of stone, the super- 

 structure of unbarked timber, and the roof thatched with heath. The floor should be pitched 

 with pebbles in Gothic pattern, and the seats be made of oak plank. 



Ameeica:s' Grapes fob European Vineyards. — It would not be at all surprising if our 

 American grapes, so utterly despised heretofore in Europe, should soon be planted exten- 

 sively there in vineyards, as it seems they are not attacked by the mildew, which is 

 threatening the European varieties with complete destruction. This would create a singu- 

 lar and unexpected revolution in vine growing. We copy the following article from the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle : 



It is difficult even for those who witnessed the desolation caused by the prevalence of the 

 potato-murrain, in 1845, to conceive the utter despair which has seized almost all the vine dis- 

 tricts, from the Rhine to Madeira, in consequence of the increasing present failure of the vintage, 

 and the prospect of entire destruction which threatens many of the most valuable vineyards. 

 Not only do the grapes decay long before maturity, but plant after plant is dying, in spite of 

 every effort to ward off the mortality. At the present moment, more especially the rich districts 

 of Portugal, on the banks of the Douro and the Upper and Lower Corgo, which supplv to so 

 great an extent the London markets, are following the fate of Madeira, and both merchants and 

 laborers are too sensibly alive to the ruin which awaits them, unless some remedy or providential 

 alleviation be found. Happily, however, the principals are not inactive, but are seeking for 

 every information which may give the slightest hope of relief. We have before us a very sensible 

 pamphlet by Mr. Quakles Harris, addressed to gentlemen in the wine trade,* and we have just 

 received a collection of diseased grapes and leaves, forwai'ded (with laudable zeal, foi- when sent 

 there was a temporary alleviation of the malady,) from the Upper and Lower Corgo by Mr 

 Gassiot, of the firm of Martixiez, Gassiot <fe Co., of Mark Lane. These present the appearances 

 which have been so often described. The leaves and fruit are covered with Oidium, and as in 

 the Madeira specimens, there is an abundant admixture, not only of Tricothecium roseum, which 

 is common everywhere, but of a charming species of Conuporium, which has occurred before only 

 on the diseased produce from Madeira. The disease was indeed quite as virulent as in the worst 

 English specimen?, and the shoots, instead of presenting a clear healthy brown, were partially or 

 entirely black, an unfailing indication, unhappily, of unhealthy shoots the ensuing year. The 

 grapes are in every stage of disease from simple depauperation to downright corruption. 



Though the method employed by M. Grison is so efficacious when practised on a small scale, it 

 requires too much capital for the poorer cultivators of Portugal ; and the total amputation 

 recommended by some authors is hope so long delayed as to make the heart of the needy vine- 

 dresser sick indeed. Mr. Robert Thompson, however, to whom we are indebted for much of the 

 accompanying information, writes as follows: "Bleeding the vine, by cutting its roots, has been 

 recommended, and instances have been adduced to prove the efficacy of this mode of treatment; 

 but the vine has such power of developing shoots and leaves tliat I can not imagine how plethora 

 could take place. Beside, we find weakly plants are as liable to the disease as tliose of full habit. 

 It may, tlierefore, be concluded that the beneficial result of root-pruning depends on somethino- 

 else. It does away with tap-roots that perhaps were worse than useless from being in a dry subsoil, 

 and which, from being the principal feedei-s, have not afforded an adequate supply to the vessels 

 connected with them. I had some Apricot trees so attacked year after year with mildew tliat not 



Eemarkg and Observations on the Vine Disease now Ruvatring the Wine Countries of Europe, with Recipes for 

 re, and Microscopic Examinations, executed by Tl'fm.n ■\V£st, Esq., 51 llatton Garden. Smitu & AVilpek, 1S53, 

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