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suggestions may be learned from Speeehly, and other writers, 

 yet there will be much judgment to be exercised in applying 

 their practice to our own. 



Mr. Allen has thus alluded to this : — 



" There are several works published in England, written by practical 

 men, giving ample directions for the cultivation of the grape in that coun- 

 try ; but the climate of the Northern States of America is so different from 

 that of England, that, however well calculated these directions may be for 

 the latter, they can hardly be expected to suit the former. The tempera- 

 ture of England is milder, and is not subject to the great extremes of heat 

 and cold which we experience. The searching northwesterly winds, which 

 prevail with us in New England in the winter and early spring months, with 

 the mercury often at zero, and even below that point, and the sudden 

 changes we are liable to, in this season of the yeai, often equal to forty de- 

 grees in a few hours, render the care requisite, for the successful forced 

 culture of fruit, very great, and the process a more difficult one, in (his coun- 

 try, than in England." — p. 2. 



In regard to the "more difficult" process of producing the 

 grape, in this country, the atUhor undoubtedly alludes to early 

 forcing ; for we apprehend that in cold houses the process re- 

 quires as little care, if not much less, than in England. 



The directions, Mr, Allen remarks, " are intended for those 

 who may dgsire to cultivate this fruit, for their own pleasure 

 or convenience, and do not wish to incur the expense of a 

 regularly educated gardener, and who have felt the want of a 

 concise and simple explanation of the process, and the rules 

 by which the operations of forcing and of growing grapes, 

 under glass structures, can be carried out." 



Mr. Allen thus alludes to some of the advantages of our 

 climate over that of England : — 



" The disadvantages we labor under, in this country, in forcing fruit, 

 from the extreme coldness of the weather in winter, are counterbalanced, in 

 some degree, by the superior brilliancy of the sun, and consequent dryness 

 of the atmosphere, at the time of ripening, which gives a flavor to tiie fruit, 

 such as it can rarely be made to attain, in the moist, dull, and cloudy 

 weather of England. The variations of the temperature are always in- 

 dicated by a Fahrenheit thermometer." — p. 4. 



Having just written our article upon the treatment of the 

 grape in the greenhouse, (p. 293,) and having given our 



