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pasture, and stable manure, and the result is, that, last year, 

 these same vines produced a capital crop of well-flavored 

 finely colored fruit, and made excellent wood. Surely, this 

 speaks volumes in favor of carrion. Is not E. F. G. mis- 

 taken, when he says that the vines in the neighborhood of 

 Leeds and Wakefield are falling ofi"? I have lived for nearly 

 twenty years in the neighborhood of Wakefield, and all who 

 have used carrion here, speak in high terms of its favorable 

 effects on their vines. The use of carrion was first suggested 

 to me by reading Mr. Roberts's ' Treatise on the Vine,' than 

 which I know of no more valuable work on the subject, and 

 for which I feel much indebted to its author." — G-ardeners' 

 CJironide, 1848, p. 102. 



A. Henderson is opposed to Mr. Roberts's plan, and 

 quotes Abbe Rozier Chaptal, M. Bosc, and other continental 

 authors, who, it is well known, are opposed to all crude 

 manures for the vine, as proper authorities to be relied upon 

 as evidence of the bad effects of them. The article is very 

 long, but it contains nothing new. It can be found in the 

 G-ardeners' Chronicle, for 1818, p. 115. 



Remarks on statements made in the discussion. — The first 

 assertion by INIr. Elliott, in the communication which com- 

 menced the controversy, is, that he found the young shoots 

 on the vines, newly planted, all dead for eight or ten inches. 

 And he denies that the explanation given him of the cause, — 

 the burning by the sheet glass, — can be the correct one, and 

 attributes it to putrefaction in the border, baneful stimulants 

 to the tender roots have arisen, and the effect of such stimu- 

 lants, according to this writer, has been tokill the ends of the 

 shoots. Had his supposition been correct, that the cause was 

 putrid matter from the flesh of animals coming into contact 

 mth the roots of the vine, I have no hesitation in asserting, 

 from what experience I have had in such matters, the result 

 would have been death to the vine, — the roots dying first, the 

 tops, last. I have never known a vine affected in this manner, 

 when there was a possibility that the rich soil could have 



