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for the grapes. If using stable manure, apply also 

 ashes or some other potash fertilizer. 



If the old-fashioned arbor is used, the best way- 

 is to run the main trunk up over it and cut the; 

 laterals back each year to two or three eyes. 



The most serious grape trouble which the home 

 gardener is likely to encounter is the black-rot. 

 Where only a few grapes are grown the simplest 

 way of overcoming this disease is to get a few dozen 

 cheap manila store-bags and fasten one, with a 

 couple of ten-penny nails, over each bunch. Cut the 

 mouth of the bag at sides and edges, cover the 

 bunch, fold the flaps formed over the cane, and 

 fasten. They are put on after the bunches are well 

 formed and hasten the ripening of the fruit, as well 

 as protecting it. On a larger scale, spraying will 

 have to be resorted to. Use Bordeaux, 5-5-50, from 

 third leaf's appearance to middle of July ; balance of 

 season with ammoniacal copper carbonate. The 

 spray should be applied in particular just before 

 every rain — especially on the season's growth. Be- 

 sides the spraying, all trimmed-ofif wood, old leaves 

 and twigs, withered bunches and grapes, or "mum- 

 mies," and refuse of every description, should be 

 carefully raked up in the spring and burned' or 

 buried. Also give clean culture and keep the main 

 stems clean. 



The grape completes the list of the small fruits 



