APPENDIX I. 31 J) 



and culture, for they are the argument I must rely upon in defence of my 

 mode of grape culture. If this argument fails to produce conviction, I 

 will yield the point; but if you like them you may give me a hearing in 

 the columns of the 'Horticulturist,' if you choose to do so, that others 

 may learn by what strange means good fruit may be produced, In Rpite 

 of the abuse so profusely heaped upon 'dead carcasses ' by those who 

 never take the trouble to give them a patient trial." 



