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"^. is the bearing shoot, and B. the one not to be fruited 

 till next year ; at next pruning, (or what is still better, 

 two or three w^eeks previous,) A. is cut clean out to the 

 V^ V • base of i?., and, when the leaves fall, B. is cut back to 

 ^ ^^^ I three eyes as A. was last season, and so on from year to 

 year." Every fall at approach of cold weather take down 

 ■ the vines, lay them on the border inside and cover with 

 tan-bark four inches deep ; cover the border outside same 

 depth with barn-yard manure. 



Routine of Culture. — The following brief instructions, from A. J. 

 Downing, contain all that is essential for a cold house : " In a vinery 

 without heat this is comparatively simple. As soon as the vines com- 

 mence swelling their buds in the spring, they should be carefully 

 washed with mild soap-suds, to free them from insects, soften the 

 wood, and assist the buds to swell regularly. At least three or four 

 times a week, they should be well syringed with water, which, when 

 the weather is cool, should always be done in the morning. And 

 every day the vine border should be duly supplied with w^ater. 

 During the time when the vines are in blossom, and while the fruit 

 is setting, all sprinkling or syringing over the leaves must be sus- 

 pended, and the house should be kept a little more closed and warm, 

 than usual, and should any indications of mildew appear on any of 

 the branches, it may at once be checked by dusting them with flour 

 of sulphur. Air must be given liberally every day when the tem- 

 perature rises in the house, beginning by sliding down the top sashes 

 a little in the morning, more at mid-day, and then gradually closing 

 them in the same manner. To guard against the sudden changes of 

 temperature out of doors, and at the same time to keep up as moist 

 and warm a state of atmosphere within the vinery as is consistent 

 with pretty free admission of the air during sunshine, is the great 

 object of culture in a vinery of this kind. 



Insects. — The aphis or " vine-fretter," is destroyed by fiimigating, 

 1. e., burning tobacco in the house, and syringing the vines freely af- 

 terward. If red spiders are troublesome, syringe the vines at even- 

 ing, and dust the leaves with flour of sulphur. 



VARIETIES. 



Feeling that a multiplicity of varieties would only mislead and 

 ^•onfuse the practical man, and our own experience with foreign grapes 

 not having been sufficient to enable us fully to decide on which to 

 recommend, we adopt and describe few besides those voted worthy 

 of general cultivation by the Americai Pomological Society. 



