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of the place or in prepared soil, and taken into the house 

 through an opening made in the brickwork immediately 

 under the wall-plate, liberal and frequent supplies of 

 water should be . given at the roots in the absence of 

 rain as the vines advance in growth. Let there be no 

 surface-watering, giving, on the contrary, sufficient each 

 time that water is applied to moisten the soil about the 

 roots. Applications of weak liquid manure at the roots 

 during the growing season will greatly assist and benefit 

 the vines in swelling and colouring their bunches. Occa- 

 sional surface-dressings of Peruvian guano, Thomson's 

 vine manure and soot, immediately followed by clear 

 water at the roots, will render additional help in the 

 same direction. Cropping and thinning of the bunches 

 is to be carried out on the lines suggested under the 

 heading of "Selecting and Thinning the Bunches;" the 

 disbudding, stopping, training, and pruning of the vines 

 being the same for vines growing in the greenhouse as 

 already recommended under those headings. Grapes 

 grown under the above-mentioned conditions will colour 

 well and be of first-rate quality. 



FRUITING VINES IN POTS 



These may be easily grown by anyone having a 

 greenhouse and a fair knowledge of the requirements 

 of the grape-vine as set forth in this book. The vines 

 should be shifted out of the three-inch pots into six-inch 

 ones, and again into tea or twelve inch ones (the fruit- 

 ing pots) before the roots become matted. Great care 

 should be exercised in the matter of giving water after 

 each shift, until the roots have pushed well into the 

 new soil, when the supply should be gradually increased, 

 giving surface-dressings of the description indicated under 

 the heading of "Treatment of Vines in an Ordinary 

 Greenhouse," and in the manner there recommended. 



