By Mr. William Griffin. 



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The Grapes which I have grown in the method above di- 

 rected, are chiefly the following : — 



1. The Black Hamburgh 



2. The Black Prince 



3. The Black Damascus 



4. The Black Tripoli 



5. The Black Tartarian 



6. The Grisly Frontiniac 



7. The White Frontiniac 



8. The Sweet Water 



9. The White Muscadine 



10. The Ciotat or Parsley-leaved. 



These are all hardy varieties, and perhaps my system is 

 better suited to Vines of that character, than to more tender 

 kinds, such as the Muscat of Alexandria, &c. 



The produce of each rafter I generally estimate at about 

 forty pounds weight of Grapes, growing usually two bunches 

 at each spur ; I gather from fifty to a hundred bunches from 

 every rafter, and these average half a pound weight each 

 bunch. I consider half a hundred weight of fruit from a 

 rafter a very handsome produce ; but I have had more even 

 than that quantity from the true Black Hamburgh Vine. 



When the house is in forcing, I suspend the branches from 

 the rafter by strings from two to three feet long, fastened to 

 nails on hooks on each side of the rafter ; these enable me to 

 let the branches down from the glass when I apprehend dan- 

 ger from frost, and to raise them again at pleasure, when the 

 weather permits. I also contrive to spread the branches, when 

 in bearing, on either side of the rafters, under the glass, but 



