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let plants suffer from neglect. Many persons let them dwindle or 

 die by forgetting to water them at the proper time, or shelter them 

 from excessive sun-heat and frost. Again, without training and 

 pruning, nothing is brought to the highest state of perfection to 

 whicli it is capable, for cultivation is necessary in order to exhibit 

 the good to which every earthly nature is susceptible. Therefore, 

 stopping and training must be attended to during the growing 

 season, as well as repotting in the spring. 



oj^ inaeching vines. 



BY JOHN" F. m'ELEOT. 



VAST amount of information has, at various periods, 

 emerged from the press on the culture and manage- 

 ment of vines ; but not a doubt can be entertained that 

 tiie principal agency in the production and reproduction 

 of their fruit is the means we have at our control for 

 maintaining a constant healthy root action. Among the means 

 which have been adopted for imparting the needed vitality which 

 modern science has suggested, that of enabling the cultivators to 

 apply a tem.perature to the roots in proportion to that to which the 

 leaves are subjected when forced, is, perhaps, the most useful. 

 Modern improvements have given us every facility in the erection of 

 forcino-'houses, that the constructions may be so adapted as to 

 supply the desired requirements ; of course the skill and attention 

 of the gardener must be combined with those resources to prove 

 their value. 



Thou^^h all these benefits may be available, if sought for, by 

 proprietors of gardening establishments, still there are structures 

 devoted to the culture of the vine which had their origin during 

 the past century, and in which the gardener has to contend with 

 many conflicting elementsmnfavourable to culture, as a low, dingy, 

 damp house, and borders which from their situation are unavoidably 

 exposed to wet and a chilly temperature at some portion of the 

 year. To young gardeners I say, endeavour, when circumstances 

 favour you, to rectify this state of things wherever it may exist. 



This brings me to my subject, the " Inarching of Vines." It is 

 not uncommon when vines are planted, especially on borders outside 

 of the house, for some of the plants to take the precedence of others 

 in o-rowth ; or it may be that you have vines that are flourishing 

 satisfactorily, but that you are desirous of obtaining some of the 

 more recently-introduced varieties, yet from your limited means you 

 cannot afford to sacrifice those you have with the intention of 

 planting fresh ones; then my advice is, inarch — a very simple 

 operation to perform. Having procured a plant growing in a pot, 

 with a good ripe rod, place the pot underneath the part on which 

 you are about to operate, then take a sharp knife and cut away a 

 thin portion of wood from each of their stems ; let it be done so 



