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CULTIVATION of the V I N E. 



difcovered, but a good gunner, will get the better of thefe : 

 But then again wafps are great enemies to grapes, they 

 pierce them in feveral places, with their fl^arp pointed bills, 

 and that the faired, ripeft and mofl forward grapes, which 

 make the bed wine, thefe rot or dry away, which is a 

 great lofs to the owner; the beft way I have yet met with, 

 to deftroy thefe pernicious vermin, is to hang up phials 

 here and there, along the outward rows of vines, filled half 

 full of water well fweetened with honey, melaffcs, or coarfe 

 black fugar, the mouth of the phial muft be fo wide as 

 eafdy to receive a wafp into it, and not much wider^ the 

 wafps foon find out the melafTes by its fcent, and getting 

 into the phial, are drowned in the fweetened water; ano- 

 ther way I have difcovered, which comes very near to the 

 former, if it does not exceed it, which is to cover flat wide 

 earthen pans, all over the bottom with honey or melaffes 

 without water, if there be three or four of thefe pans 

 placed at a good diftance, the whole length of the vine- 

 yard every wafp to leeward, that is within fmell of them, 

 will come to the feaft, they will foon fo entangle them- 

 felves in the melaffes that, if you attend them, you may 

 make it a deadly feaft to almoft all that come; when the 

 wind comes from another quarter, place your pans along a- 

 nother part or fide of your vineyard, that fo the wind may 



blow from the vineyard to the place, from whence you would 



draw the wafps, and h go round till you have deftroyed 



them all. 



One circumftance I have omitted with regard to birds, 



and that is, if poles be ftuck up here and there, near that 



quarter where the birds harbour and have their haunt, and 



fmall branches with three or four twigs on them, be faf- 



tened to the top of the pole, and the twigs well daubed 



over with birdlime, the birds will perch upon them, and 



will be fo entangled by the bird-lime that if they are fuf- 



fered to continue upon them fome time, if they then get 



away, they will hardly return again that feafon: and as if 



they could communicate to each' other their grievances and 



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