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and intelligence than seems to be necessary westaway. The great 
difficulty will assuredly be the general prevalence of anthracnose, or: 
black-spot, as it is i EA Rie na (Sphaceloma ampelinum, De By). 
This plague, though far from being comparable in mischief to the 
Peronospora of the vine, which luckily we have not Set imported, is 
still an enemy to be reckoned with, and it will be necessary that all 
eastern vineyards be assiduously treated by spraying with Bordeaux 
mix as a preventive of the scourge. There is little dE that 
success will attend the proper application of this remedy, just as has- 
been proved to be the case in Europe. But the additional died for 
skilled labour in its use will hea avily handicap the eastern producer, 
especially if he should incautiously cultivate the more cane Me 
of vine, say, for instance, the Cape western Haanepoot, kno 
-elsewhere as Muscat of Alexandria, a sort which is pestieubalr liable 
to the attacks of Anthracnose. 
* New comers to a country who have been accustomed to the class of 
grape which is seen upon English dessert tables, will be surprised to find 
that nothing has ever been done at the Cape at all comparable to the 
minute care which grapes receive at home under glass = the hands of 
skilled —À who have made this fruit a special study. As we 
have them, the grapes are fairly good, and up to size on the outside of 
the bunch, ws by earelessness and want of proper thinning, they are 
not half-grown or half-coloured in the middle. The plan has been to 
- grow grapes for wine and for the. table. in Al same vineyard, and with 
the same low average of attention. That is to say, the table grapes. 
have practically grown themselves, instead oes ch buneh having been 
(the subject of individual inspection and treatment with the thinning 
scissors. Perhaps some skilled gardener, who knows what a dessert 
bunch of atapo should look like, may find it worth while to show what 
can be done in this country, where the climate reuders his glass-house 
and hot water pipes unnecessary. Certain it is there is no la 
Pene folk here who will buy grapes of English hot-house type a 
heir full value. utatis mutandis, much the same thing may be said 
of other fruits, peaches and pears particularly, Our growers have ha 
no high standard to work up to, and have been too easily satisfied. 
The comments of Covent Garden salesmen upon picked Cape samples 
have certainly opened their eyes somewhat, and given them to see that 
the fruit which has been taken as first rate, levels down to scarce a 
which nature pobre A only the raw mater 
n western markets, January gives the last of the strawberries and 
aprieots which have been to hand for some five or six weeks previously. 
_ The earlier sorts of grapes, pears, and apples according to kind, also the 
earlier peaches, plums, and figs, fill up the list. From the conditions of 
the elimate it is rather a cultural eae to try and hurry things by 
planting what are known in Europe as as early-fruit sorts. Cape conditions 
are much more XAR to perfection in the later kinds, at least in sue 
parts. of the country as - upon the first piston. pacto iniand all 
round the coast... Further up-country on the cond and the 
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