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have done flowering, give them no water ; when the leaves are dead, 

 take them out of the soil, and remove the offsets, and lay them in 

 an airy situation until the time of planting. 



If grown in water-glasses, they require to he placed in a light, 

 airy situation, and the water will require to he changed once in three 

 or four days. If drawn up weakly, it will be necessary to support 

 the stems. This, however, will not be necessary if they be kept in 

 a light and airy situation. When out of flower, plant them in pots 

 of soil to perfect their leaves, and treat them as above; they will 

 then flower again the succeeding year. 



GRAPE VINES IN POTS. 



IE APES grown in pots for forcing, when well furnished 

 with fruit, have a beautiful appearance, and when 

 properly grown make an ample return. For this pur- 

 pose the plants should be raised from " single eyes," or 

 a piece of the preceding year's wood with only one joint, 

 taken off at the spring pruning, and placed in a small pot of sandy 

 earth, setting it in the vinery, where it will progress at nearly the 

 same rate as the parent plant. As soon as it has filled the pot with 

 roots, it should be shifted into a larger one ; and if everything goes 

 on favourably, it will require to be again removed, this time into the 

 fruiting-pot, which should not be less than fifteen inches over ; and 

 here it will require to establish itself before winter, that it may be in 

 a fit state for resting until the succeeding year, then it must be cut 

 back to within four or five joints of the pot, and afterwards be sub- 

 ject to the same treatment as the mature specimens. It will usually 

 produce three or four bunches the first year, and by pruning back 

 to three joints annually, and supplying the roots with fresh mould 

 when first started, and liquid manure at their most active season, the 

 plants will continue fruitful a long time. 



CONSTRUCTION OP THE GARDEN FRAA1E. 



[HERE are three sizes of which garden frames are always 

 formed, and they are severally distinguished by the 

 names of one-light, two-light, and three-light boxes or 

 frames, corresponding to the number of lights or sashes 

 of which they are composed. The first two sizes are 

 generally employed by nurserymen and market gardeners, chiefly as 

 beds in which to raise tender seeds, or for protecting delicate exotics, 

 and they are thus constructed to be convenient for removal from 

 place to place, as circumstances may require ; but for all purposes of 

 utility, as regards the necessities of the amateur gardener, and its 

 application to the system of management which we are about to 

 describe, the three-light frame is the most suitable. Where, how- 



