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The aphi I also meet'with, but to a very trifling extent, but as I do not like 
it, I always pinch ofiF the ends of the canes where I find it, put them under 
my foot and carefully rub them out of existence. The grape-vine sphynx also 
visits me occasionally, but is easily detected, picked off and destroyed. 
There are many other interesting matters in the treatment of the vine, to 
which I would like to refer, but find that it is impossible in a single paper to 
embrace all that should be discussed, and will, therefore, enter upon the con¬ 
sideration of some of the varieties. 
From notes made in my garden on September 80, 1867, you wil^ 
not only see what was growing at that time, but the character of the vines as 
grown there ; after which, and by way of closing, I will make a remark or two 
about the comparative merits of the vines grown in this vicinity. 
NOTES ON VARIETIES. 
Clinton —Grown for shade—every year affected with thrip—and what is 
worthy of observation, the only vine in my garden ever so affected; also 
every year more or less affected with mildew. It grows in the west part of 
my garden, in the mellowest kind of material, on the north-west side of the 
house. Is very large, people being able to sit under it, and has a foliage so 
dense that the sun does not penetrate through it, of course it does not bear 
well. The branches are not complete—are small—the berries mildew and 
drop, and the fruit is worthless. I propose, however, as the young vines 
planted along side of ^it, grow up, to restrain to a great degree, its growth, 
enrich the soil, and have no doubt of making a grape vine of it, as soon as I 
am ready. I said that it was worthy of observation, that this vine is the 
only one in my garden affected with the thrip, and it is equally worthy of 
remark, that it is the only one that is visted regularly from year to year with 
a general attack of mildew, leaf and fruit, nor is it less worthy of remark, 
that the aphis and the sphyroxes are about exclusively fonnd upon it—more 
upon this one vine than upon all my other vines put together. I have al¬ 
ready pointed out the reason. The example is full of information and sug¬ 
gestion. The Clinton is a vine that does remarkably well in this climate un¬ 
der ordinary cercumstances, and is still held by some men who ought to be 
judges, to be worthy of a place in a garden—in my opinion about as worthy 
as is a wild crab. 
habella —Grown on the southwest side of the Clinton, forming part of the 
shade of the arbor, but neither affected with thrip nor^’mildew. Treated the 
same as the Clinton, i. e. allowed^ to run wild, laterals not touched, as they 
are wanted for shade at the present—bears well, bunches long and loose and 
irregular, and fruit good. The freedom of this vine (interlacing as it does 
with the Clinton), from disease in leaf and fruit, is owing, as it seems to me, 
to its being a much younger vine ; to its not having overgrown itself; to its 
having abetter aspect—more sun and air passing through it—and perhaps to 
being better drained as it is close to the well. The soil is the same as that of 
the Clinton. The Isabella thriven here. 
