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OF THE CULTURE, &C. 



The leaves of the pale-red and grizzly Grapes 

 are not always tinged with red ; but whenever the 

 least tinge of red, purple, or scarlet appears on the 

 leaves of the vine at the time of their maturation, 

 it is a certain criterion that the grapes will be 

 either of a grizzly, a red, or a black colour. By 

 a strict attention to this remark, a person may be 

 enabled to ascertain the colour of the grapes of 

 Seedling Vines at the end of the first year. 



.Although the situation and climate of this 

 country be too unfavourable for bringing the best 

 kinds of grapes to perfection in a natural way, yet, 

 by artificial means, we are enabled to carry even 

 the latest ripening sorts to almost as high a degree 

 of perfection as in any part of the globe. 



The most certain methods of obtaining grapes 

 in perfection in this country, are either to pro- 

 pagate the Vines in pine stoves, or against flued 

 walls covered with glass, commonly called Vineries. 



In some seasons there are many kinds of early 

 grapes brought to a tolerable degree of maturity 

 against common walls ; but even in a propitious 

 season, the best sorts of grapes thus produced are 

 of little value ; whereas even the latest sorts, when 

 propagated in a pine stove or Vinery, seldom fail 

 of producing crops of well-flavoured grapes. 



The management and method of training Vines 

 in the Hot-house being very different from that of 

 propagating them in a Vinery, it will be proper and 

 expedient to treat the two modes separately. 



