CH* 5] GRAPES. 115 



water, or fugar and fmall beer, and bird- 

 lime. All thefe methods are, however, 

 fometimes ineffectual for the deftru&ion of 

 wafps, where they abound in vaft quanti- 

 ty : and their fondnefs for Grapes renders 

 it fometimes neceffary to inclofe the bunches 

 in bags of gauze, or filken paper, which is 

 truly a misfortune ; as the Grapes, by be- 

 ing fo much excluded from the action of 

 the fun and air, fall greatly off in flavour. 



SECTION XL 



On tie Prolongation of the Grape Seafon, where there are 

 more than one compartment for its Culture. 



WHERE there are two or three Grape 

 houfes, and a fucceflion and fruiting 

 H 2 pine, 



fill it in the common manner ; but firft put in as much 

 clean gunpowder as will charge a piilol ; fire the fquib ; 

 thruft it into the hole of the neft, and inftantly clofe it 

 round with a little mud, previoufly prepared for the pur- 

 pofe. When the fquib burns to the gunpowder, it will 

 Explode, and drive the whole fmoke back to the inner- 

 mod parts of the neil. In a few minutes, dig it up and 

 each individual, if not already dead, will be found fo 

 much fickened as that it cannot efcape. This operation 

 ihould be performed after fun-fet, when the enemy hav& 

 returned from their depredations. 



