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sence of mine. The plan I adopted was merely to prune the vines on the 1st of Oc. 
tober and afterwards train them on bamboos, near the ground on the south side of a 
wall ’protecting them from the frost at flight by screens of cloth stretched on bam- 
boos’ My intention was to train them on the north side of the wall, till I perceived 
the buds beginning tosivell ; then I should have changed the vines to the south side; 
they however, came out into flower a few days after the pruning, while I was away, 
and consequently I could not move them there, tor fear of destroying the flower. 
So I let them remain till the grapes were well formed, and then put them to the 
other side ; this, however, hilled a great many of the leaves, by putting their under 
surfaces to the sun, (I thought the leaves would have turned their upper surfaces to 
the sun) : still the grapes were ripe in the beginning of March, and were as good as 
those which the same plants produced the former year, in June : had they lieen trained 
at first on the south side they would have been far better. I have found great effect in 
ringing peach trees ; the fruit of the ringed branches was more than double the size 
of tlmt on the union of the same tree. Ringing did not in the least alter the apples 
or figs ; this is directly contrary to the experience of Mr. Knight in England. 
Grapes I found much improved in size and flavour by ringing, besides being ripe a 
fortnight earlier than those of the unringed branches. At this place, X haveuufor- 
tunatelvonly a very small garden at present, and in it there are no trees of any 
S °“ Mr. B. has a pear tree in his garden, which this year is bearing nine pears s 
X hope they will ripen. The tree itself thrives beautifully, also ihe English 
mulberry. The latter gives a great deal of fruit, the appearance of which is very 
fine, but there is very little flavour in it. What is the reason, that apple pips will 
not germinate in this country ? I have sowed them frequently, and never succeeded 
in a single instance.” B. 
4 . — Size for damaged drawing paper. 
The usual receipts for the recovery of drawing paper that has lost its size, such as 
washing it with alum water, rubbing paste on the back of the sheet, have been ac- 
knowledged by all that have tried them to be, if not perfectly useless,yet by no means 
fully curative of the evil. Our readers will he glad to learn the following new, and 
it is asserted, perfectly successful process, discovered at the Behar Amateur Litho- 
graphic Press, and published in the John Bull newspaper under the signature of 
Iiithos. It is stated to have the further advantage of making the water colours 
work with more freedom than they will even on good paper. The following is the 
receipt. 
The paste — Take a handful of Soojee, and having placed it in a soup tureen, pour 
a quart of a water over it, and then work it well with the hand for half an hour, 
with a view to detach the gluten from the Soojee. Then strain, the whole through 
a piece of cloth, throw away the residue, and allow the liquor to subside, which will 
take three hours. Then pour off the water, aud the gluten* remains in the dish. 
Mix the gluten with a pint of cold water and pour it into a silver saucepan, and 
boil it to a proper consistency, which it appears should be that of very thin paste. 
How to prepare the drawing paper with this paste — Having placed the paper or 
drawing to be prepared, on a large sheet of common paper, wrap a piece of fiuo 
muslin about yonr lore-finger, and having dipt it in the paste, rub it first on 
the hack, and again on the front of the paper, until the paper takes the colour of the 
paste through and through. Then laythe paper to dry, lifting it once or twice, that 
it may not stick to the surface on which it is placed. 
The^ writer must mean the fecula or starch which has passed through the 
cloth. The gluten was the residue thrown away. Quaere, If this be the writer’s 
meaning, would not starch or hair powder, which are each of them pure fecula, 
answer as well ? Ed. 
Errata in No. 2. 
Page 52 line 5 for “J* or,” read * 6 for.” 
» 59 ,, 11 from bottom, for “ Dr. Butler,” read « Dr. Butter.” 
» 56 „ 9 from bottom, for “ economica,” read « economical.” 
