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This worni may be the same, or at least a species of 

 the same worm, which operated the last of June on 

 the apple tree ; its appearance to the eye is the same, 

 its operations the same, and it has the same faculty of 

 jerking itself back as the apple-tree worm. Some sea- 

 sons they seemed,.. to threaten total annihilation, the 

 vines presenling to the eye the same appearance that 

 an orchard does when its foliage has been eaten by the 

 canker worm. To destroy this worm, the vines were 

 kept under water from spring until the first of July, 

 1852. This destroyed aU the worms I believe, as I 

 have not seen one since. When the water was taken 

 off the vines grew vigorously, forming the blossom bud 

 for the present year, and the result is as handsome 

 a lot of berries as ever was seen. 



Nearly every year I have cut the grass near the first 

 of July, thereby giving the plants the air, sun, and 

 light. 



One side of this piece borders upon a small brook, 

 which, previous to my cultivating the vine, in a dry 

 time would become dry. In this brook I formed a 

 dam in two places ; these dams, most of the time in 

 a season like this, keep the meadow wet, and the water 

 is forced back among the vines, the object of wMch is 

 to protect them from frosts, which usually occur in 

 all the summer months in low lands. 



In addition to the above statement, I would like to 



