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The expressed juice of the unripe fruit is called ver- 

 juice, and is considered a very useful external remedy for 

 bruises. 



The wood of the vine reduced to charcoal, is used by 

 painters for drawing outlines, and is mentioned as good 

 for tooth powder. 



Although it forms no part of the plan of this work to 

 enter fully upon the cultivation of trees, I cannot avoid 

 giving a few remarks on a fruit of so much importance. 



In the planting of vines, the first care should be to 

 select cuttings of those kinds which are known to be 

 good, and suitable to the situation and soil in which they 

 are to be placed ; and this cannot be better done than by 

 consulting some of the most respectable nurserymen who 

 are now so numerous in the vicinity of London, and other 

 populous neighbourhoods : at the same time we consider 

 it a duty to caution the planter against those advertising 

 quacks who profess to ensure their trees to be invincible 

 to all casualties, and with as much truth as the mounte- 

 bank sends forth his nostrum to cure all diseases. 



" The grafting of vines upon vines is not now in use/' 

 says Lord Bacon in his Natural History ; and adds, " the 

 ancients had it, and that three ways : the first was insi- 

 tion, which is the ordinary manner of grafting ; the second 

 was terebration through the middle of the stock, and put- 

 ting in the scions there; and the third was paring of 

 two vines, that grow together, to the marrow, and binding 

 them close." 



Speechly, in his work on the vine, says, " The grafting 

 of grapes is but little attended to, although of so much 

 importance ; as a bad vine may be improved without loss 

 of time ;" and he states, that he has had fine grapes from 

 the same year's grafts, which, if permitted, will run from 

 thirty to forty feet the first summer. He mentions a 



