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special aid or attention. In the second class, we should have as types the Muscat of 
Alexandria and its allies. It is with these that the care and skill of the Grape- 
cultivator are required, since it is frequently found that promising as the show of 
bunches and blossoms may have been, only a very small proportion have set, and on 
Fig. 12.—Olustee op Grapes nfpERFECTLT set. 
touching the Vines a perfect shower of the small flowers descends, leaving little 
but the skeleton of the bunch. To avoid this, it is the safest practice to main¬ 
tain a tolerably high temperature, say as near 70” by night as may be possible 
and adopt every available means to assist the setting. There is generally 
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