. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. bell-glass 1 as an opening at the top,with its edge turned over in the form of acollar. After it is slipped over the bunchof grapes, it is held in its place by a wire,which is passed round the collar, andthen fixed to the nearest part of the trellisor vine branch. The cluster is usually in-troduced into the bell-glass as soon as thegrapes are well formed, though it is oftendelayed as long as possible; that is, till thebunch is in danger of growing so large,that it will not enter the opening in the up-per end of the bell. Long exper
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. bell-glass 1 as an opening at the top,with its edge turned over in the form of acollar. After it is slipped over the bunchof grapes, it is held in its place by a wire,which is passed round the collar, andthen fixed to the nearest part of the trellisor vine branch. The cluster is usually in-troduced into the bell-glass as soon as thegrapes are well formed, though it is oftendelayed as long as possible; that is, till thebunch is in danger of growing so large,that it will not enter the opening in the up-per end of the bell. Long experience, it is said, has thorough-ly proved the good effect of this kind ofbell-glass in the climate of Holland. There,one often sees an hundred, and not unfre-quently several hundreds, in use at once, onthe same line of grape espalier. In them,grapes, which will not ripen at all in theopen air, mature and attain an excellentflavor. The air, it will be seen, circulates freelythrough these bell-glasses, as the openingsat both ends are left open. Insects of all. Fig. 20. The Dutch Bell-gtast. kinds, it is stated, will not remain underthese bell-glasses, and the grapes enclosedin them are consequently left entirely un-touched by the numerous flies and wasps,which usually prey upon them when ex-posed. No sooner does a wasp approachthe enclosed bunch of grapes, than hetakes flight again, probably alarmed at the NEW MODE OF GROWING SEA KALE AND RHUBARB. 71 noise made by his own wings under theglass. Such is the account received from Hol-land, of this mode of ripening grapes. Iunderstand that these bell-glasses can beblown at our glass-works, and afforded atlow prices by the dozen. Their value willno doubt be tested bv some of our amateur cultivators, who would like a couple of dozenclusters of choice Frontignan or Hamburghgrapes every year, without the expense of avinery. Vitis. P. S. I ought to add the dimensions ofthe Dutch bell-glass. Its height is aboutnine inches ; the opening at
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