238 (->p:-.n air grape culture. 



coin2)ete against liim, with both mdoor and outdoor 

 grapes, at our Hampshire horticultural show in E^o- 

 veniber. 



'' As a matter of course, I had read of ringing fruit 

 trees, etc., but it never struck me to put the same 

 into practice until about fourteen years ago, when my 

 attention was called to it in an amateur friend's gar- 

 den, Mr. Frampton, glass and paint merchant of this 

 city. I happened to walk in and look at some vines 

 to which he was paying great attention at that time. 

 This was in the month of September, and here I first 

 saw the ringing process of the vine. Seeing a few 

 bunches of the Black Hamburg so large in the berry, 

 and all ripe, I began to inquire into the particulars, 

 when Mr. Frampton kindly showed me where the 

 branches were rung, and that the ringing was the 

 cause of their being so very large and so early. I 

 then wanted to know whence Mr. Frampton obtained 

 his information, when he showed it to me in the 

 ' Penny Cyclopaedia,' from the pen of Professor 

 Henslow." — Thos. Weaver, Gardener to the Warden 

 of Winchester College, 



[It is quite true that we have watched for some 

 years, with great interest, the experiment upon ringing 

 vines carried on by Mr. Weaver, and we can authen- 

 ticate his statement of the mode of ringing and its 



