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berries. Many old buildings and sheds are made 

 picturesque by a covering of vines ; and in the case 

 of quarries, etc., they could, perhaps, be made to hang 

 over the edges on wooden frames, if the soil was not 

 sufficiently deep to plant them below ; the large south 

 or west gables of houses, barns, etc., could be filled 

 with vines, and if the situation was very good, Miller's 

 Burgundy and Black Hambro' could be tried, as well 

 as the White Muscadine, Chasselas Vibert, Frontignan, 

 and other hardy white Grapes. Under glass, if they 

 can be well done, Grapes may pay, but the importation 

 of fruit from the Channel Islands and the Continent 

 has brought down the price of hot-house fruit produced 

 in this country by one half; and further, so many 

 gentlemen's gardeners have orders to sell their surplus 

 crop, that the amateur has little chance of competing 

 with them ; though if the handy man about the garden, 

 or, as sometimes happens, one of the family take a 

 pleasure in looking after such things, they may be 

 grown to advantage, but we should prefer to sell the 

 crop at a price to a dealer, and let him take the risk. 

 The high shop prices choice Grapes realize in our 

 large cities and towns, and the low figure they make 

 wholesale, is a most dismal outlook for growers just 

 starting ; and as those princes of culture, the market 

 florists, have now taken up the growth of late Grapes 

 by the acre, in their usual energetic manner, this 

 matter must be thoroughly weighed before investing 

 in " glass." 



2. PEACHES, NECTARINES, AND APRICOTS. These 

 require so much care on walls, and the spring climate 

 has for several years been so against them, that they 

 cannot be recommended for open wall culture at a 



