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TREATMENT AFTER THE GRAPES ARE CUT 



The vines from which the bunches of grapes have 

 been cut during the summer and early autumn months 

 should be well washed morning and afternoon on bright 

 sunny days with clean water applied by the syringe or 

 other means, allowing abundance of air day and night, 

 weather permitting, until they have shed their leaves, 

 and pinching young growths at one joint as soon as they 

 appear. This will prevent the vines' forces being un- 

 necessarily wasted, and at the same time afford a 

 sufficient safety-valve to the flow of sap to prevent the 

 mature and ripening buds or eyes located at the bases of 

 the fully developed ripening leaves from being excited 

 into growth, the vines being also kept uniformly moist 

 at the roots. Thus treated, the vines will be kept quite 

 free from the attacks of red-spider, which in many 

 instances is allowed to effect a lodgment on the vines 

 after, if not before, the grapes have been cut a catas- 

 trophe which will not happen under the treatment 

 indicated above. 



ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS TO BE OBSERVED IN HOUSES 

 CONTAINING LATE RlPE GRAPES 



Vineries in which are hanging crops of ripe grapes of 

 late long-keeping varieties during October and the two 

 following months should have abundance of fresh air 

 admitted on all favourable occasions, a dry buoyant 

 atmosphere being maintained during the time that the 

 grapes remain on the vines, sufficient warmth being 

 turned on in the hot-water pipes to insure these atmo- 

 spheric conditions, as well as to prevent the temperature 

 falling below forty degrees in frosty weather, and to 

 prevent any moisture that might otherwise arise settling 

 on the grapes and causing the berries to damp. The 



