170 PREVENTING THE ATTACK OF INSECTS, MILDEW, &c. 
or four years’ old wood from six to ten or more inches, and after 
denuding them of all warty excrescences, besides that at the apex, I 
bend them horizontally round the inside of the pot, using as small a 
size at first as I can safely bend them into, so as to give me the chance 
of frequent shifting, and place them in bottom heat. When a shoot 
arises, it comes up like a strong asparagus bud, and soon has abundance 
of fine roots, with a great reservoir of food to support it. When it has 
grown to the height of eight or ten inches I pinch off the top, and then 
all the laterals, till I induce a principal eye to burst, which I lead 
upwards, divesting it of all laterals and tendrils, till it is five or six feet 
long, before I again top it; if it be of the desired strength, but if not, I 
top at two or three feet, according to its strength, till I have got the 
strength required, which the plant soon gains, in consequence of the 
number of active and vigorous roots. When the pot is full of roots, 
re-pot it, and afterwards it will do well without placing again in bottom 
heat. 
I have some muscats at this time, from cuttings of last spring, that 
will weigh two pounds each bunch, and one of those has fifteen bunches 
upon it; it showed forty bunches. I have some Chasselas d’Arbois 
that I expect to weigh two pounds per bunch, in pots, and this is but 
the second season. I received a few cuttings of the Chasselas Musque 
from the London Horticultural Society this time twelve months, and 
one of those has at this time six fine formed bunches on it. 
The Candia variety of muscat, of which I received a shoot for coiling 
last season, and then produced me two fine bunches and ten plants ! 
will produce me fourteen or fifteen bunches this year, and, I have no 
doubt, in the highest perfection. 
What a pity that so simple, cheap, and successful a method of 
cultivating the grape is not practised in pots more generally. A more 
regular and certain supply of grapes can be kept up, and at a much less 
expense in machinery than it is possible to do by the diffused method 
of culture, and with the choicest and best kinds. 
ON PREVENTING THE ATTACK OF INSECTS AND MILDEW, &c. ON 
WALL AND OTHER FRUIT-TREES. 
, , BY SENEX. 
It is a very old proverb, that the prevention is better than the cure 
of a malady. This applies to the disorders of the vegetable, as well as 
to those of the animal kingdom. The former are liable to disease from 
predisposing causes, as well as the latter. Atmospheric influences 
