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and close to the wall, in order to ripen it well. I am confident 

 that the peach will not thrive long in this climate, without similar at- 

 tention is paid to its cultivation. The apricot is also grown in the 

 same way on a westerly aspect, and all other choice fruits for the 

 table are planted in such situations as to come in at different seasons. 

 I have seen the grape grown to perfection about London, where 

 the roots have been planted ten feet below the side-walks, and the vines 

 trained against the houses, and where little or no preparation has been 

 made for thein but the waste of bricks from the building ; the kinds were 

 the old Sweet-water, and Miller's black cluster. I have also seen the 

 grape in the west of England, one hundred and sixty miles from London, 

 do equally as well as those near the city ; they sometimes make a 

 trestlti, on the south roof of their houses, to train them on, and pro- 

 cure most excellent fruit ; the reflection from the heated slate roof 

 ripens them in good season. It is necessary, in order to pi'oduce 

 good specimens of the apple, to pay better attention than is com- 

 monly done. Li Europe they prune the trees every spring, clean 

 off the rough bark, keep the trees free from suckers round the 

 roots, and manure and dig round them once or twice a year ; by so 

 doing they have fine clear fruit ; it is a very good plan, and one that 

 is frequently adopted, to plant potatoes in beds or rows, between the 

 trees ; this I consider, for two reasons, to be a good system ; you get 

 two crops off the same ground ; and, by keeping it loose round the 

 trees, the roots get the benefit of the sun and rain. You will see 

 by observation, that where trees are not dug round in grass fields, they 

 soon get covered over with moss ; in consequence of which the fruit 

 is small, and of a bad quality. There are many persons who have 

 followed gardening for a few years, and have been very successful in 

 what they have undertaken ; but we are not always to expect from 

 them general information ; they do not view, probably, the garden- 

 er's work in all its different branches. Let the gardener's vrork be 

 looked at by the practical man, who has followed it for years, and 

 he will be the best judge to decide between good and bad manage- 

 ment. 



Yours, T. WiLLOTT. 



Roxbury, Feb. 6th, 1835. 



Art. III. On the Propagation of the Grape Vine ; with Observa- 

 tions on its 3Ianasfemcnt, Priming, S^'c, in the Green-house and 

 Grapery, and the Formation of Vine Borders. By J. W. Russell. 



[Continued from page 48.] 



Gentlemen, 



I WITH pleasure continue my remarks on the culture of the grape. 

 It will, perhaps, better accord with my plan, to give some practical 



