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which, if suffered to remain, will quickly affect all 

 the adjoining ones. 



The fruit will now, most probably, be attacked by 

 birds and insects ; if so, means must be used to 

 protect it. If a few wide-mouthed bottles containing 

 sugared beer, be hung up in different parts of the vine, 

 great numbers of wasps and flies will be enticed mto 

 them and destroyed. But if these insects be very nu- 

 merous, this will only prove a partial protection. The 

 bunches must be bagged, or the entire vine covered 

 with bunting, or some other fabric of a similar de- 

 scription, and this will, at the same time, protect the 

 fruit from the attacks of birds. 



If the former mode be resorted to, the best sort of 

 bags that can be used for that purpose, are those made 

 of hair cloth. The texture of these being open, and 

 their fabric stiff, the sides of them stand out at a dis- 

 tance from the berries, and thus a free circulation of 

 air is permitted round the surface of the latter, which 

 has the effect of keeping them dry and in good 

 preservation. If hair cloth bags, however, cannot be 

 procured, crape bags may be used instead; but it 

 must be observed, that, whatever sort may be used, 

 they must be taken off every four or live days, in 

 order to examine the bunches, and to cut out decayed 

 berries, if any should appear. It is necessary, there- 

 fore, that the bags should be made large, that they 

 may be taken off and put on again with ease and 

 facility. If the bunches of fruit, however, be numer- 

 ous, it will be much easier, and better, indeed, to pro- 

 tect the vine with a covering of bunting, or leno, or 

 of some other fabric that is thin, and also open in its 

 texture. But, as the exclusion of air thus occasioned, 

 will operate injuriously with respect to the keeping of 

 the fruit, if the covering be continually kept on, it will 

 be necessary to remove it every night, and replace it 

 in the morning ; or. if it be temporarily nailed to the 

 top of the wall, which is the better way, it can be 

 drawn up, and let down again as circumstances may 

 require. If this be not attended to, it will be found 



