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ceive any difference in their growth. As soon as the 

 eyes had pushed enough to be tied, I pulled out the 

 scion which had the weakest shoot, and trained the othei 

 up under the rafters. They all grew that season to the 

 top of the roof, fourteen feet, and were there stopped. In 

 the fall, there were ten of them which I judged to be 

 stout enough for fruit, and I cut them down to five buds 

 each. They bore, and ripened their fruit well, and have 

 continued to bear, more and more, the two seasons since. 

 I allowed one, the past season, to bear twenty pounds, 

 which was too much, and it was not well colored. The 

 rest bore about twelve pounds each, and ripened it well. 

 Two of them made rather long-jointed wood the first 

 season, and were cut down to one bud in the fall, and 

 the next season one of the shoots from one of these buds 

 got broken off by accident, and I immediately cut off tlie 

 stem, under ground, and grafted a second scion into the 

 first. This was in June. It grew perfectly well, and 

 has fruited for two seasons past. The kinds I engrafted 

 were the Black Hamburgh, Victoria, Black Prince, and 

 White Sweetwater. I have been unable to perceive any 

 difference between the size, color, and flavor of the fruit, 

 from that of the vines on their own stocks. 



" The insects which breed in our light soil, are a great 

 trouble here. The rose-bugs attack them while in blos- 

 som, and, unless a direct attack is made upon them, they 

 soon destroy a large crop of bloom. I have boys with 

 tin cups, with a little spirits of turpentine in them, who 

 go through the vineyards every morning, during the 

 three weeks or thereabouts, that this bug exists, collect- 

 ing them into these cups, where they are instantly killed. 



