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pear probable that thousands, and tens of thousands, of 

 these white fish, spread over the surface of the land, 

 wonld affect the foliage in the fields wherein they were 

 undergoing this change. 



Dr. Lindley then says, " The vine-dressers of France 

 object to manure altogether.'''' I cannot pass this remark 

 by, without a direct denial of the assertion. The gentle- 

 man himself does it effectually in the quotation he brings 

 forward from Chaptal, and the- continuation of the sub- 

 ject of manures by this French author, given under the 

 head of manures for vineyards, will still farther explain 

 the customs of the French. My own belief is, that the 

 French manure their vineyards : that there are excep- 

 tions to this, it may be. Chaptal, and other authors, are 

 opposed to the custom, I admit ; but other persons, who 

 write what they have seen and know, state that they are 

 used. Chaptal wishes to discourage the use of it, from 

 a belief that it injures the juice of the grape ; that it in- 

 creases the size of the berry, he admits, and that is what 

 all are endeavoring to obtain, when cultivating for the 

 table, and the plan of cultivation which will produce 

 this, without injury to the amount of the crop, flavor, or 

 color, of the fruit, is the best. 



Dr. Lindley is of the opinion, that the grapes shown 

 by Mr. Gower, have surpassed those grown by Mr. Eo- 

 berts. From the printed account of them, [ should have 

 preferred to have been the one who produced the six 

 kinds, named as having been shown by the latter. Three 

 of these varieties usually setting poorly, all of which 

 were sufiiciently large, and the White Nice, (a kind that 

 makes a large bunch, but a light weighing fruit,) remark- 



