Cause and Cure of the bad Setting of Grapes. 687 



Any one who attends to the cultivation of this autumnal 

 flower, instead of having his flower-garden nearly destitute 

 of flowers during one month of the year, may have it highly 

 .ornamented with the Aster. 



The principal motive of this communication it so recommend 

 flowers for the embellishment of the month of October only ; 

 but as I have enumerated the kinds of asters which bloom in 

 the two antecedent months, to wind up I have inserted a few 

 sorts underneath which flower from the middle of November 

 to Christmas ; though the same argument will hold good which 

 is applied to the sorts flowering in August and September, as 

 from the middle of November to Christmas the garden is or- 

 namented by that matchless winter flower the Chrysanthemum. 



Asters in bloom from the First of November to Christmas. 



Height in feet. 

 Lacteus altissimus, French white - - 12 



Purpiireus altissimus - - from 8 to 9 



Grandiflorus, fine large blue - 3 



I am, Sir, &c. 



T. Rive^re. 



Hampden Cottage, Sawbridgeworth, Herts, 

 November 4. 1829. 



Art. XVI. On the visible Cause, and easy and effectual Cure, of 

 the bad Setting of some Sorts of Grapes. By Mr. James Craig, 

 Gardener to G. Cholmeley, Esq., Howsham, York. 



Sir, 

 I dare say it is well known to you that a great many 

 of those vines which " have blossomed but brought no fruit" 

 have been hewn down as cumberers of the ground, and pro- 

 bably many more have been condemned before they were 

 fairly tried ; and if such there are, I trust that what I am 

 about to state will be the means of saving them from the fatal 

 axe. I have at this place a vine under my care, which is a 

 very bad setter ; it is an old plant, growing in a double-pitted 

 pine stove. Previously to my coming here it had been con- 

 demned for an apparently good reason, which was, it had 

 never brought to perfection more than about a dozen berries 

 on a bunch ; the residue were about the size of peas. I was 

 informed of its faults, but nevertheless respited it, and have 

 been amply rewarded for my clemency. It ripened, last year, 

 a very fine crop, the bunches from 1 lb. to 3 lb., well filled 

 with berries, considerably larger than those of the white 



