98 Method of retarding the ripening of Grapes. 



habit of late bearing, and this habit, Mr. Arkwright states, 

 has been brought on gradually. Whenever he introduces a 

 young vine into the house, where his late grapes are grown, 

 it is treated exactly like the vines which are in bearing, and 

 in the second or third year after planting, when it begins to 

 yield fruit, it is found to have lost its disposition to break 

 into leaf at the accustomed season. Mr. Arkwright began 

 to practise his present plan of growing late grapes about 

 twelve years ago, at which time he also used to force early 

 grapes ; and so successful was his plan of retardation, that, 

 on the 1st of May, 1810, he had on his table, fresh gathered 

 fruit, the produce of two years, viz. of the late crop of the 

 past, and the early crop of the present year. He has now 

 ceased to force any vines for early fruit, and confines his cul- 

 tivation to that of late grapes alone. 



