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LXXIV. Notices of Communications to the Horticultural 

 Society, between May 1st, 1821, and January 1, 1822, of 

 which Separate Accounts have not been published in the 

 Transactions. Extracted from the Minute Boohs and 

 Papers of the Society. 



JV4 R. Thomas Fleetwood of Dunnington, near Alcester, 

 communicated to the Society on the 8th of May, the following 

 method of hastening the maturity of Grapes on open walls. 

 Before the Vines are out of flower, he brings each bunch into 

 a perpendicular position by a thread attached to its extre- 

 mity, and fastened to a nail in the wall, carefully confining 

 the young branch with the bunch thereon, as close to the 

 wall as possible. The period of blossoming is preferred for 

 this operation, because the bunch at that time takes a proper 

 position, without injury. By this practice, the bunches are 

 kept so steady that the berries are not bruised by the action 

 of the wind, and being fixed close to the wall, they receive 

 such additional heat, that they ripen a month earlier than 

 when left to hang in the usual way. 



Thomas Paytherus, Esq. of Kensington Square, stated in 

 a communication to the Secretary, dated the 9th of May, that 

 he had succeeded in destroying the insects which infested the 

 bark of the Apple and Cherry-trees in his garden, by rubbing 

 the parts where they lodged, with the fresh green leaves of 

 the common Fox-glove (Digitalis purpurea). The insects were 



