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gardener, about Christmas, how his grapes had done this 

 year; his reply was, "Very well; I adopted your plan, 

 (except one light, which I could not move,) giving plenty 

 of air. The grapes under the light, which I could not 

 move, were not so good as the others. In a house I had 

 this disease take the crop, with the exception of a vine 

 at the end, where the steam-pipe entered, producing a 

 great and drying heat ; and there was a door, with a 

 ventilator over it, which all aided to keep off the disease. 

 This vine alone was always free from it : this speaks for 

 itself. Perhaps many may think I am too sanguine on 

 this subject ; but should I be right in my opinion, and in the 

 means of producing a remedy, I shall be vain enough to 

 think I have done some real good. Should any person 

 really find the correctness of it, I hope they will do me 

 the favor to acknowledge it in your magazine, which 

 will be attended with some good; and should it be fairly 

 proved my idea is wrong, I invite the same insertion 

 from those who may have proved it to be so ; but let 

 them give it more than one trial, and fair ones, for I . 

 have no desire to mislead." 



Vol. 11, page 603. " Having been troubled with the 

 shrinking or shrivelling of grapes, more or less, for seve- 

 ral years, I am determined to add my testimony to that 

 of Mr. Parkes, that some good may be effected by leav- 

 ing air in the house all night, &c. &c." This writer 

 agrees with Mr. Parkes in the plan of giving air as the 

 remedy, but does not admit tl at the length of the foot- 

 stalk can be the cause. 



Vol. 12, page 244. Mr. Jasper "Wallace thinks that 

 " the principal cause of the shrinking of grapes is owing 



