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When the vines are being established in the fruiting 

 pots, they should be stopped at four, six, and eight feet, 

 allowing them to make two feet of fresh growth in main 

 stem between successive stoppings. This should be done 

 in the manner advocated under the heading of "Disbud- 

 ding and Stopping," pinching all lateral growths hard back 

 persistently in order to concentrate the energies of the 

 vines into the swelling of large, plump, filbert-like buds 

 and the thickening of the individual canes. These, when 

 grown under the roof glass exposed to plenty of light 

 and with a free circulation of fresh air playing about 

 them during the months of August, September and 

 onwards, will become consolidated and well-ripened 

 conditions absolutely essential to fruitfulness in all kinds 

 of fruit trees. The vines can be stood out of doors in 

 October, plunging the pots to the rims in sifted coal- 

 ashes in a sunny situation where water is not likely to 

 accumulate at any time. A situation under a wall or 

 fence having a south or west aspect would answer admir- 

 ably, the canes being secured to stakes or to the wall 

 or fence if available. In the following spring the vines 

 can be taken indoors, the pots being stood on the front 

 staging, or failing this, on two or more bricks, according 

 to the distance from floor to wall-plate, and be trained 

 up the rafters (one underneath each). However, in a 

 general way, it is much better to obtain the vines direct 

 from some grower having a reputation for the growth of 

 pot-vines, such, for instance, as Messrs Keynes, Williams 

 & Co., of Salisbury. The disbudding, training of shoots, 

 etc., are to be performed as recommended under the 

 several cultural headings. 



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The grape-vine may be converted into a decorative 

 subject for the dinner table, where the bunches of 



