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GRAPES  SCALDING  AND 
SHANKING. 
THIS  Siason  Vines  have  scorched  leaves  and 
scalded  berries  to  a  greater  extent  than  is 
ordinarily  the  case.  The  weather  has  been  of  a 
fitful  nature,  and  mostly  cold,  though  there  have 
been  brief  hot  periods.  These  are  favouring  con¬ 
ditions  of  scorching  and  scalding ;  but  we  must  not 
altogether  blame  the  weather  for  certain  mishaps 
that  occur.  It  has  broad  shoulders,  and  need  have, 
to  bear  the  burden  which  those  men  are  the  most 
prone  to  impose  who  take  the  least  pains  to  coun¬ 
teract  its  adverse  influences  or  mitigate  its  un¬ 
welcome  effects.  However  “  trying  ”  the  weather 
may  ho  at  times,  it  is  well  to  recognise  the 
concrete  fact  that  it  will  run  its  own  coarse,  and 
our  plain  duty  is  to  avert,  so  far  as  is  possible, 
certain  mishaps  that  may  follow  in  its  wake. 
Powerless  as  we  are  against  the  sweep  of  the 
hurricane  in  our  natural  cultures,  when  we  work 
under  artificial  conditions  we  can,  in  a  large 
measure,  prevent  certain  misfortunes  to  which  all 
our  cherished  Vines  are  liable. 
The  scalding  of  Grapes  is  the  most  prevalent 
where  the  panes  of  glass  are  large  and  clear  and 
the  ventilation  inadequate.  The  construction  of 
the  house  may  be  occasionally  at  fault,  for  horti¬ 
cultural  builders,  though  clever,  are  not  infallible ; 
still  they  can  say  that  in  exactly  the  same  kind  of 
structures,  and  under  identical  weather,  serious 
injury  may  occur  to  the  Grapes  in  one  house, 
while  there  is  immunity  from  the  same  kind  of 
iujuiy  in  the  other.  If,  therefore,  it  is  fair  to 
blame  the  builder  in  the  first  case,  it  is  only  just 
to  praise  him  in  the  second. 
The  difference  in  results  indicated  cannot  he 
attributed  to  the  structures,  but  is  clearly  a  question 
of  management.  We  must,  therefore,  set  aside 
the  horticultural  builder,  and  face  the  fact  that 
scalding  often  occurs  through  neglect  or  mistakes 
in  some  form,  such  as  faulty  or  insufficiently 
early  ventilation;  the  lack  of  gentle  heat  in  the 
pipes  for  maintaining  a  buoyant  atmosphere ; 
or,  it  may  be,  of  gentle  shade  at  a  critical 
moment.  Practice  teaches  that  both  scorching  of 
the  foliage  and  scalding  of  the  berries  can  he 
vo.  2598  — vol.  XCIX.,  Old  Series. 
