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from the Chronicle, and, to express my own opinion upon 

 the question raised, I have appended notes to the differ- 

 ent suggestions, as occasion seemed to require. 



" Questions for Vine Growers. — Being near the resi- 

 dence of a celebrated grape-grower, (whose, name it is 

 unnecessary to mention,) I had a great desire to pay him 



a visit. J learned, however, that Mr. was not at 



home, but was invited by an assistant to look round the 

 place. "We proceeded directly to the vineries, in which 

 I found the vines healthy and vigorous ; they were old 

 established vines, and were producing a very full crop, 

 particularly some Cannon Hall Muscats. Proceeding 

 onward, however, to some newly erected houses, in which 

 the vines had been planted last February, I found the 

 young shoots all dead for eight and ten inches back, and 

 Bome even more ; and, for the cause of this calamity, I 

 could not obtain a satisfactory explanation, the blame 

 being laid upon the sheet glass with which the houses 

 were glazed. Upon inquiring of what the borders con- 

 sisted, I was told that they had received a large admix- 

 ture of dead carcasses, such as those of deer, horses, 

 &c., and of bones. On more recent inquiry, I was also 

 informed that the death of the young shoots was caused 

 by the flue running four times through the back walls ; 

 but I know of no case of this kind ever having occurred 

 before." (The writer then says, neither the glass nor the 

 flues can be the cause of it.) He adds, " I conclude the 

 malady has arisen from putrefaction in the border ; for, 

 while these carcasses are in a putrescent state, noxious 

 matters must arise, which have proved a baneful stimu- 

 lant to the tender roots. I feel interested in the case, 



