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temperature, and moisture, was congenial to their nature, 

 and the atmosphere of the vinery what it ought to be, 

 there would be no air-roots ; so that at least they are 

 symptoms of an undesirable state of things, as I have 

 already said. 



SCALDING. 



I have used the above name for a disease that certain 

 varieties of grapes, more especially Lady Downes and 

 the Muscats, are subject to, just as they are finishing 

 their stoning. It attacks individual berries in the 

 bunches, and always during hot sunny weather. The 

 berry becomes suddenly dimpled on one side, and in 

 a few hours has the appearance of having been dipped 

 in boiling water, after which it rapidly decays. In this 

 way I have seen bunches, especially of Lady Downes, 

 reduced to skeletons. The perfect remedy for this is, 

 to give the vinery as much air as a common green- 

 house during the heat of the day, the moment the 

 disease begins to show itself, till all tendency to it is 

 over, a period of not more than fourteen days, after 

 which the house may be aired as usual for a vinery. 

 I observed from the complaints made in the horticul- 

 tural press in the summer of 1864, that this disease 

 was very prevalent just as I would have expected 

 during so hot a summer, and with, in too many 

 cases, defective means of ventilation. 



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Those who have paid most attention to the subject 

 have come to the conclusion that many of the highest 



