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or, as it is called in France, the Noir Hatij\ is 

 the earliest of all. I would have this for one of 

 my eight vines ; and, for the other seven I would 

 have, the Chasselas ; the Burgundy ; the Black 

 Muscadine ; the Black Frontinac ; the Red 

 Frontinac ; the White Sweet Water ; and the 

 Black Hamburgh, which is the sort of the 

 Hampton-Court Vine. In cases where grapes 

 are to be grown against houses, or to be trained 

 over bowers, the firincifile is the same, though 

 the form may differ. If against the side of a 

 house the main stem of the vine, might by de- 

 grees, be made to go, I dare say, a hundred Jeet 

 high. Supppose 40 feet. In that case, it would 

 be forty instead of four; but, the side sheets or 

 alternate bearing limbs, would still come out in 

 the same manner. The stem, or side limbs, may 

 with the greatest ease, be made to accommodate 

 themselves to windows, or to any interruptions of 

 smoothness on the surface. If the side of the 

 house, or place, be not very high, not more than 

 15 or 20 feet; the best way is to plant the vine in 

 the middle of your space, and, instead of train- 

 ing an ufiright stem, take the two lowest shoots 

 and lead them along, one from each side of the 

 plant, to become stems, to lie along withing six 

 inches or a foot of the, ground. These will, of 

 course, send out shoots, which you will train up- 

 right against the building, and which you will 

 cut out alternately, as directed in the other case. 

 311. HUCKLEBERRY.--.lt is well known 

 that it grows wild in great abundance, in many 

 parts, and especially in Long Island, where it 

 give rise to a holiday called Huckleberry Mon- 

 day* It is a very good fruit for tarts mixe,d with 



