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If tte grapes themselves are attacked^ it is on them that the 

 flowers of sulphur should be applied. It has been remarked 

 that under sunshine the Oidinm may be totally destrored in 

 one hour, a result that may be attributed to the speedier 

 disengagement of sulphurous acid gas by the heat of the sun, 

 but it is dangerous to apply it if the sun is too strong/'^ 



The pruning of the yine is so well understood in England 

 that it is needless to give it here in the fall detail with which 

 it is honoured in M. Rose-Charmeux's book, the Culture 

 du Chasselas.'^ Indeed, after having translated his direc- 



Fi&. 236. Fig. 237. 



Stade to protect the Grape -thiimers from thirtr-one inclies wide, and 



strong 5tm. ten inches and a half deep. 



tions their painful and unnecessary minuteness and gi'eat 

 length have obliged me to omit them. The system as shown 

 in Figs. 227 and 228 is simply the well known spur pruning 

 practised in nearly every English vir.ery. There are indeed 

 several modifications of training : but this as everybody knows 

 is of no real importance. In this case, a? with the vine 

 indoors, the selection of a proper medium for the roots is of 

 far gi'eater importance than anything else,, while the 

 simplest form and the best system of pruning ai'e without 

 doubt the same as those seen in our Adnerie? — an erect 



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