Chap. XIX.] 



PRESERVING GRAPES. 



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On these points hangs the whole matter of good or bad preservation. 

 Complete ripeness is easily secured, but a proper house is a more 

 difficult matter. It should be built with hollow walls, to neutralise 

 the eflects of both heat and cold ; and, though much fire-heat is 

 undesirable, as it causes the fruit to shrivel, provision should be 

 made for its application to expel damp when required — the door 



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and ventilators being wide open while the heat is being given. 

 The most important point to observe when cutting the Grapes is 

 to see that the whole extent of wood above the bunch be left 

 intact, and not cut oflf as in the illustration of the Thomery and 

 Ferrieres methods of Grape-preserving. The water absorbed by 

 the wood is by this means partially diverted from the fruit into 



