The back-yard where I live is full of grape vines. A row on one side covers a high board fence. Three vines run rampant over the tops of some tall trees. The remainder, situated in an open space, are trained to short stalks or trimmed into low bushes without support. The grapes on these latter vines are much exposed to the sun, and produced near the ground, while those on the former hang high under a canopy of leaves.

The difference in the amount of fruit produced in the two situations is striking. Curiosity prompted me to count the berries on one hundred clusters in each case. I tried to be fair and select average representatives. One hundred clusters from the pruned vines contained only 141 berries, or an average of less than two to each cluster ; thirty-eight of these clusters bore no perfect berries, and the highest number on a cluster was ten. One hundred clusters from the an pruned vines contained 1247 berries, or an average of over twelve to each cluster ; the lowest number on a cluster was two and the highest forty. The injury to these grapes was caused by the black rot. - A. A. Crozier.