282 THE CULTURE OF THE GRAPE. 



years old. By permission of my employer, Ire-made the 

 borders. In the first place, I took the vines cai'efnlly np, 

 and the border being in a very bad state, I drained it 

 well, refilling it with compost, consisting of a portion of 

 carrion, leaf mould, turf from a pasture, and stable ma- 

 nure, and the result is, that, last year, these same vines 

 produced a capital crop of well-flavored finely colored 

 fruit, and' made excellent wood. Surely, this speaks vo- 

 lumes in favor of carrion. Is not E. F. G. mistaken, 

 when he says that the vines in the neighborhood of Leeds 

 and Wakefield are falling off? I have lived for nearly 

 twenty years in the neighborhood of Wakefield, and all 

 who have used carrion here, speak in high terms of its 

 favorable effects on their vines. The nse of carrion was 

 fii'St suggested to me by reading Mr. Roberts's ' Treatise 

 on the Vine,' than which I know of no more valuable 

 work on the subject, and for which I feel much indebted 

 to its author." — Gardeners' Clironicle, 1848, p. 102. 



A. Henderson is opposed to Mr. Roberts's plan, and 

 quotes Abbe Eozier, Chaptal, M. Bosc, and other conti- 

 nental authors, who, it is well known, are opposed to all 

 crude manures for the vine, as proper authorities to be 

 relied upon as evidence of the bad effects of them. The 

 article is very long, but it contains nothing new. It can 

 be found in the Gardeners' Chronicle, for 1848, p. 115. 



liem.arlcs on statements made in the discussion. — The 

 first assertion by Mr. Elliott, in the communication which 

 commenced the controversy, is, that he found the j'oung 

 shoots on the vines, newly planted, all dead for eight or 

 ten inches. And he denies that the explanation given 

 him of the cause, — the burning by the sheet glass, — can 



