160 THE GRAPE. 



water freely during the earlier periods of growth, drive it 

 into all crevices of the house, and judiciously over the 

 vines, and you may generally defy all the host of them. 

 If after the fruit begins to ripen they should make an 

 attack, the sulphur and tobacco may be applied as recom- 

 mended, when their comparatively small numbers will be 

 speedily put to the rout. 



