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ON VINERIES. 



'Capillary, kcvp-pil-lart (a capillaris, Lat.), resembling a 

 hair ; small, minute. In anatomy, applied to the minute 

 vessels by which the terminals, arteries, and veins com- 

 municate with each other ; and in botany, to the fine, 

 hair-shaped fibres of a plant ; S. a fine duct or canal. 

 In surgery, applied to a linear fracture of the skull, 

 unattended with any separation of the parts of injured 

 bones. 



' In natural philosophy, capillary attraction is that 

 property of a fluid by which it rises above the level of 

 the tubes of small diameter, in consequence of the attrac- 

 tion of the matter of the tube being greater than the 

 power of gravitation.' — Craig's Dictionary. 

 ja The above should be studied carefully by all amateurs 



and gardeners, after which they will probably think 

 with me, that it is most important that the greatest 

 care should be exercised in pruning and pinching off 

 young shoots when in a growing state. 



During my absence, on one occasion, my young men 

 allowed some of the vineries to grow wild, or rather the 

 vines in them, and then began to let daylight in amongst 

 them, thinking they were doing perfectly right. On 

 my return home, to my great disappointment, the sun 

 had begun to scald the grapes so much that I thought I 

 should have lost the whole house of fruit. Indeed, so great 

 was the injury, I feared I should lose the vines also ; 

 and as it was, they did not recover the shock for 



