it to blight m the Spring. The skill of man has never yet discovered 

 either remedy or preventative to this surcharge of moisture in the 

 atmosphere and its effects. 



4 Of the Flush or Plethora. 



This disease proceeds from the too great abundance of nourishing 

 juices that are afforded to the plant, by a hot, deep soil. It only 

 happens in those excellent and heavy bottoms in which the lower lay- 

 ers are richer than the surface. It shows itself firstly by the vines, 

 sprouting jets and spriglets at every joint, at the expense of the fruit, 

 the most of which dwindles away ; the wood swells and reddens, and 



fpreternaturally thick ; it is full of buds and eyes, and becomes brit- 

 tle. At first, of the berries that ripen, some are enormously large, 

 others of small, irregular sizes ; but in a season or so, the grapes be- 

 come dwarfed and are not bigger than small peas. The Gamet and 

 Melier kinds arc most liable to this distemper. The only method 

 is to tear up the diseased stock ; to dig deep and lay open the soil 

 that it may mellow freely ; to open trenches to isolate and confine 

 the roots ; to replace the earth taken out by worn out, washed soil, 

 sand, moor sods, &c. ; and to set out a new slip and not plant it deep- 

 er than 6 inches. 



Of the Goupillure or Stint. 



This disease is owing to a soil too poor, the deceitful surface of 

 which has induced the planter to set out, while the bottom is only of 

 clean sand. It rarely shows itself until ten years afler planting, and 

 just after a remarkably fine vegetation and crop ; but it then is irreme- 

 diable. The plant having then sprouted its roots to the uttermost, 

 without being able to obtain the aliment it seeks from the sandy 

 substratum, pines, and grows feeble, gives a meagre crop, and instead 

 of sprouting its leaves in an oblique direction, they stand horizontally. 

 There is no cure, the stocks must be grubbed out. 



A complete knowledge of the nature of the ground chosen for the 

 vine-yard, is the only safe-guard against the invasion of this complaint. 

 In such soils as will produce it, the only way is to plant no deeper 

 than 9 inches, and in the fifth or sixth year to intrench the stocks ; 

 the roots then must run near to the surface and keep deriving their 

 sustenance from the laver of a"ood earth, without piercing deeper. 



