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GROWING THE GRAPE ON OPEN WALLS, ETC. 



the upper part of the roof ; and &, &, for covering the upper part of the 

 gable : c, c, are for covering the lower part of the roof ; rf, rf, the upper part 

 of the wall ; and e, e, the lower part. The other stems speak for themselves. 



Fig. 355. Two sides of a cottage, covered with vines, trained in Mr, Hoare's manner. 



988. Kinds of grapes most suitable for the open wall or for cottages. — 

 Mr. Hoare recommends Black Hamburgh Black Prince, Esperione, Black 

 Muscadine, Miller's Burgundy, Claret Grape, Black Frontignan, Grizzly Fron- 

 tignan. White Frontignan, Wliite or Royal Muscadine [? Syn.], Malmsley 

 Muscadine, White Sweetwater, Early Black July. For handsome, large, 



• and well-set bunches, no white grape equals the Royal Muscadine for walls 

 or cottages ; and the Black Prince ripens better than the Black Hamburgh. 



SuBSECT. V. Insects, Diseases, ^c. 

 When the vine is properly cultivated, it is little subject to insects; but 

 under glass it is occasionally infested with the red spider, and with one or 

 two species of coccus. The former may be destroyed by washing the flues 

 or hot- water pipes with a mixture of quick -lime and sulphur, and shutting 

 up the house ; and the latter, by washing the wood, after the leaves 

 have dropped, and the whole of the interior of the house, with soft-soap, 

 which may also be mixed with sulphur. There is little danger, however, 

 from either of these insects, if the air of the house is kept sufficiently warm 

 and moist. The fruit, when ripe, is liable to be attacked by birds, wasps, 

 flies, &c., which may be excluded by netting or wire-gauze ; but on the 

 subject of insects we refer to what has already been stated in subsect. VII., 

 p. 108. Bleeding, the result of pruning at an improper season, may in 

 general be left to cure itself by the expansion of the foliage. 



Sect. III. — Culture of the Peach and Nectarine under glass. 

 Subsect. I. — Natural data on which the culture of the Peach is founded. 



989. The peach (Amygdalus persica L.) is indigenous in Persia, where it 

 attains a high degree of perfection, and where Dr. Royle informs us, both 

 the free and cling stone varieties are known. It is also found in various parts 

 of Turkey in Asia, in India in different parts of the Himalayas ; and it is 



