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ing a. course of Horticultural Lectures in New-Haven, in Februarj^, 1860. In the 

 month of June following I received from France the excellent work of Dr. Guvot, in 

 which something of the same plan is wrought out in full detail under the elaborating 

 care of many years. 



He does not restrict the use to the north merely, but recommends it for any locality 

 ■where grapes may be cultivated, saying, " that in the most favorable climate it not only 

 adds greatly to the value of any crop beyond the cost of application, but renders the 

 production of a full crop of grapes as sure as anything can be that is in the least degree 

 short of absolute certainty." 



Flff.I. ■•' ri'j.e^. HOLTOhl ENG.NY. 



W*te No. 84. 



"When vines have been planted six or eigbt feet apart, and have become confused 

 without system, and are yet thought to be too valuable to throw away, the question is 

 often asked : " What is to be done ? " Plate No. 35 sbows one of the best methods 

 of bringing such vines into such some degree of order. 



HOLTON ENCR.n.r. 



Plate No. 36. 



