Tobacco Water. — Grape Vines. 695 



them as above, with a little dung about the stems and roots, 

 and forking in the spring, must not be neglected, or else the 

 caterpillar will appear. Bushes round borders may be served 

 the same as those in squares, by clearing away whatever 

 grows about their roots, laying on dung, and covering with 

 earth. Dung well rotted, from the frames, is what I have 

 always used. I am. Sir, yours, &c. — James Hart. Drum- 

 condra, near Dublin, Sept. 2. 1832. 



Tobacco, (p. 42. 49 1.) — Sir, Your correspondents having 

 given sufficient information on the growing of tobacco, I shall 

 merely offisr for their information, not having previously seen 

 it in 3'our publication, that, previously to burning it for raising 

 smoke and destroying insects, I pour boiling water over it, 

 by which means I obtain tobacco water of strength propor- 

 tionate to the quantity of tobacco and water used. I have 

 thus used it for the last ten years with unvarying success ; the 

 tobacco being full as useful for fumigation, and the water 

 equal to what I used to buy from the tobacconists, after this 

 process. I shall add, that this discovery was made when I 

 first began to gi'ow my own tobacco, and was made as fol- 

 lows : — In filling Read's fumigating apparatus with unwashed 

 tobacco, I found the instrument soon rendered useless by the 

 melting, as I suppose, of the salt of the tobacco ; thereby 

 clogging: the orifice of the machine. I then washed the to- 

 bacco, dried it, and found it burn perfectly well ; and at the 

 same time procured my tobacco water. I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 — W. Z. Sept. 24. 1832. 



Langford' s Incomparable Grape (Lindley's Guide, p. 201.) 

 is preferably increasable by Eyes or Buds. — Sir, Mr. Lang- 

 ford, some time back, sent me cuttings of his Incomparable 

 grape. He stated that he prefers raising it from eyes, which 

 he plants like bulbs; and, with the cuttings, he sent me a few 

 eyes cut ready for planting. I have tried both the cuttings 

 and the eyes ; and the eyes have made fine shoots and are in 

 leaf, while the cuttings are not. I am. Sir, yours, &c. — 

 M. Said. Sulyard Street, Lancaster, April 18. 1832. 



Mr. Pillans's Vines, (p. 629.) — I see a short notice of our 

 Horticultural Association (p. 629.), in which you refer to Mr. 

 Pillans's mode of cultivating the vine, and express your rea- 

 diness to communicate it to the public. The fact is, that 

 Mr. Pillans takes an eye from a vine in the month of March ; 

 and from it produces, in the following April or May twelve- 

 month, a handsome plant for his master's table, bearing 

 several bunches of fine I'ipe fruit. Some of your readers 

 will not credit this; but I have seen it: that is to say, I 

 went through Lord Ducie's forcing-houses in May last, and 



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