PART SECOND. 



TO PRESERVE GRAPES AND MAKE 

 RAISINS. 



You may preserve the grapes on the vine, 

 by twisting the stems when the fruit is ripe ; 

 or else by cutting them off in fine weather 

 and hanging them tip in the air so that they 

 shall not touch each other; or, lastly, by 

 spreading them out upon straw. 



But the best way is to choose very dry 

 weather for gathering them ; pick off careful- 

 ly all the bad grapes, and have with you a 

 vessel full of boiling tar, into which you will 

 immediately plunge the stem of the grapes, 

 about half an inch deep, at the place cut. Then 

 you have a barrel well hooped, which you tar 

 thoroughly inside and outside, to render it 



