WOEKS ON AGRICULTURE, ETC. 15 



A Fourth Edition of 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE 



ON THE 



CULTIVATION OF THE GRAPE TINE. 



By WILLIAM THOMSON, 



Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, K.G., &c., Dalkeith Park. 



CONTENTS. 



Ventilation. 



post suitable 



of planting Vines. Treatment of Vines first year after planting. The second year's lYeatment 



The Fruiting Year. Pruning Vines. Grafting and Inarching Vines. Fruiting Grape Vines 



in Pots. Selection of Vines. The Diseases Vines are subject to. Red Spider. Rust on Grapes. 



Mildew on the Vine. Warts on the back of the Leaf. Air-roots on the Vine. Scalding. 



Stocks for tender Vines. Packing Grapes. Keeping Grapes after they are ripe. Amateur's 

 Vinery Calendar. Experiments with Vines. Open-air Culture. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" We opened with much interest a volume on the vine which has just reached us. Its author has long been 

 known as an excellent cultivator, especially of grapes ; that he is also a man of good sense is now shown by 

 his having confined his treatise within the limits of his own personal experience. . . . When books on 

 gardening are written thus conscientiously, they are alike honourable to then- author and valuable to the 

 public." Lindley's Gardeners' Chronicle. 



"The issue of a fourth edition of Mr Thomson's treatise on the vine so soon after its first appearance, is the 

 best of all practical commentaries on its merits, to which we have adverted in former notices. In the 

 present edition, such farther information as experience has suggested has been added. . . . We may 

 add that those who have not yet consulted Mr Thomson's book may do so with the full confidence that the 

 lessons they are taught will be those of a master." Lindley's Gardeners' Chronicle Notice of Fourth Edition, 



" In the short space of three years Mr Thomson's admirable treatise on the cultivation of the grape vine has 

 passed through four editions. Such an event is not to be wondered at, when we consider the experience of 

 the author and the way in which he has, through these pages, communicated that experience to others. No 

 better test of the appreciation in which the work is held can possibly be furnished thau the appearance of 

 the fourth edition, which contains some new matter that lias suggested itself to the author since the last 

 edition was published. We observe there are two new chapters one on ' Scalding, ' and the other on 

 1 Stocks for tender vines,' which, as it is a subject that has been much agitated of late, we will transcribe. 

 . . . We cannot too strongly recommend Mr Thomson's treatise as a thoroughly practical and sure guide 

 to the cultivation of the vine. " Journal of Horticulture. 



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THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE. 



By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, M.A., F.R.S.E., &c. 



A NEW EDITION, edited by G. H. LEWES, Author of the ' Physiology of Common Life.' 



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THE CHEMISTRY 



OP 



VEGETABLE & ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY. 



By Dr J. G. MULDER, 



Professor of Chemistry in the University of Utrecht. 



Translated by Dr P. F. H. FKOMBERG ; with at^Introduction and Notes by 

 PROFESSOR JOHNSTON. 



