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eyes, and as many of its leaves, and I linings of the pine pits select the most 

 scrape oft' a little of the bark the whole decayed parts of the manure, 

 length of the part intended for roots, ; "I usually allow the shoots to run to 

 which is bent into the pot, and covered ! the extent of thirteen eyes, and then 



with mould to the depth of six or seven 

 inches. No attention is required, ex- 

 cepting to train the shoot as it advances 

 in growth, and keep the mould in the 

 pot a little moist, to encourage the 

 emission of roots, which will appear in 

 a fortnight or three weeks, and soon 

 fill the pot. When the shoot is laid in 

 the pot, allow it to grow from four to 

 eight feet long, according to the strength 

 of the parent vine, to which leave it 

 attached until it has done growing, and 

 perfectly ripened its wood 



stop them. 



" By the middle of September the 

 wood becomes ripened, and I then 

 prune them back to the ninth eye, and 

 remove them from the pinery to the 

 open air, setting them under a south 

 wall, on bricks placed edgewise, so as 

 to admit free drainage. On the first of 

 November, I generally take in fifty-pots 

 for forcing; (this I have occasionally 

 done on the first of October ;) when they 

 are washed with soft sonp and sulphur. 

 After all the eyes have shown fruit, 



"Should there not be a sufficient I select from six to eight of the best 

 quantity of leaders, place pots under I bunches to remain, and pluck off" the 

 the rafters at mostconvenient situations, | others, never allowing one eye to bear 

 and likewise on the front flue; but the j more than one bunch. I syringe the 



shoots that are laid in these pots never 

 suffer to exceed five feet in length. 

 When the plants are severed from the 

 parentvines, put them out under a wall, 

 where they are protected from frosts, 

 and take into the house as required for 

 forcing; at that time shift into pots 

 about a foot over and fourteen inches 

 deep, to remain until the fruit is cut, 

 after which they may be thrown away, 

 sure of a fresh supply of plants every 

 year by the same process." — Card. 

 Chron. 



Mr. H. Burn, gardener of Tottenham 

 Park, gives the following particulars of 

 his mode of cultivating the vine in pots : 

 — " I invariably set the eyes in thumb 

 pots on the first of February, and putting 

 moss about two and a half inches deep 

 on the flue at the back of the pine pits, 

 I place the pot upon it, keeping the 

 moss always moist. 



" As soon as the bud or eye has grown 

 and become well furnished with roots, 

 I repot into sixty-sized pots, and con- 

 tinue afterwards to shift as fast as the 

 pots become filled with roots ; from 

 sixties to forty-eights, thirty-twos, twen- 

 ty-fours, sixteens, and twelve-sized pots 

 successively ; and lastly, into bushel- 

 pots, which I have made for the purpose. 

 I encourage rapidity of growth as much 

 as possible, by feeding them with liquid 

 manure made from cows' and deers' 

 dung ; and during the whole time keep 

 a good drainage at the bottom of the 

 pots. The soil I used is nothing more 

 than three-fourths strong turfy loam, 

 and -one-fourth horse-dung ; from the 



vines gently with warm water three 

 times a week, and water thern twice a 

 week with the liquid manure. Should 

 they, however, occasionally require 

 more moisture, I give them nothing 

 more than soft water about milk warm. 

 I invariably fruit annually from 100 to 

 120 vines, taking in after the first fifty 

 the rest in succession. 



Fig. 74. 



" The above engraving represents a 

 transverse section of the vinery, with 

 bed for tree leaves to decay and heat; 

 frame-work for the support of front 

 trough sixteen inches wide at the top, 

 and ten inches deep, and the wire un- 

 der the rafters on which the vines are 

 trained." — United Card, and Land 

 Steward's Journ, 



