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are not, the gardener will be sure to meet with endless 

 trouble. When once they get fairly established in the 

 vines, it is far better to pull the latter up, renew the 

 border, and plant fresh ones, taking care, of course, first 

 to wash and clean the house thoroughly, and paint all 

 wood and iron work three or four times over, as insects 

 creep into every crevice and increase very rapidly. If 

 these recommendations are not attended to, there will be 

 neither pleasure nor success with the vines. 



Some gardeners, in order to get rid of this pest, 

 begin, after the vines are pruned, to strip off all the bark ; 

 and I have seen some go so far as also to scrape the 

 vines, which I consider a most unnatural operation. Be- 

 sides this, I have seen a mixture applied, in which soft 

 soap and turpentine predominated. I have also known 

 inexperienced people dress the vines all over with lin- 

 seed oil, the consequence being that the oil penetrated 

 the stems until it almost killed them; and four or 

 five years were spent in the endeavour to bring the 

 vines round again into a state of fruitfulness, with no 

 result. It is hardly necessary to state that oil, turpentine, 

 and -soft soap penetrate the stems of the vine to such 

 an extent that they stop the flow of sap altogether, 

 and consequently the plant dies. In my opinion, the 

 bark ought not to be stript off, nor should the stems be 

 afterwards scraped. It will be easily understood that 



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