OCT.] GRAPES. 4*25 



pruning ; as therein also lies a mistake. The plants 

 ivill bleed in aiitmnn, as well as in spring, tikougli 

 not so copiously : in the descent, as well as in the* 

 ascent of the sap ; or before the juices have stag- 

 nated in the bianches. * 



Referring the reader to the manner in whicli It 

 is supposed tlie plants have beep pruned and train- 

 ed in March, and in April, the operation of pruning 

 7WXC is simple and easy — -much, very much less per- 

 plexing and intricate, than as when the greater part 

 of the summer-v.'ood is allowed to grow v/ild as a 

 bnsh : the systen.i of some, through an affectation of 

 tJicU onlij which is natiual ; and of others, through 

 slovenliness. Both systems are wrong, egregiously 

 wrong. Grapes do not vataralli) grow under glass ; 

 and so should be ariijicialli/ pruned, as well as plant- 

 ed. 



We are told in sacred writ, tliat God himself 

 planted a garden ; — not, certainly, to grow rcild, 

 however; as we find He afterwards placed our first 

 parent there as gardener : no doubt io pruiWy as well 

 as to plant, to sov/, and to v/ater. Where, then, is 



* This matter is not quite agreed on. Some contend that the 

 fap does not descend to the roots in autumn, but only becomes 

 stagnant, and remains so in the branches till put in motion br 

 heat ; and this argument is supported by the example of the very 

 plant in question, which, in a stove, will grow vigorousl)', thoug-i 

 every root, on the outside, be in a frozen state. That the sa(> 

 circulates, (as the blood in animals), is a fact not now disputed £ 

 believe ; and certainly, if it does not prove, it leads to an infer- 

 pnce, that it ma}' rise and fall with the season. 



