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Anatomy of the Vine. 



August. Therefore, permit me to digress, and represent 

 them to your and their attention previously to that period, 

 that my observations may in part be confirmed by what will 

 then appear ; or that I may have the benefit of being corrected 

 by your and their better judgment. 



These periodical changes in the vine I have watched for 

 several years : at first, I must acknowledge, they extremely 

 surprised me, so much so, that, had they been communicated 

 to me, I should have had my doubts excited respecting the 

 validity of such information. That I may be prepared to 

 convince others of what I should have doubted myself, I have 

 selected your June Number to represent them in, which will 

 give every one interested in the subject sufficient time to exa- 

 mine the vines previously to the first week in August, when 

 such changes generally take place on those growing on south 

 walls in this neighbourhood, but in colder situations I have 

 found them to take place later, even in the third week in 

 August, and I think it would not be earlier in the northern 

 counties of England. 



On the 10th of July, 1829. — We will suppose part of the 

 "summer's shoot of the vine to have grown similar to Jg. 50., 



