Review of Loudon's Gardener\s Magazine, 



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Fire heat applied ; and all the steam that can be 



rai.sed i)rodiiced. 

 Sprinkling of pipes and pathways performed at all 



limes, for the sake of steam and moisture. The 



heat of dinig on border, 70°. 

 Weather favorable: the nights often 50° or 52°; 



seldom under 40°. We have had only four frosts ; 



the most inten.se as low as 26°. 

 Buds perceived to be swelling. Heat of dung on 



border, 90°. 

 Ceased to syringe vine.s. The sprinkling of soil, 



pipes and path continued. 



Buds breaking generally. Heat of dung on border, 



96°. 

 Weather wet and windy : nights 45° to 50°. 

 Shoots 2 in. long. 



Heat of dung on border, 65°. 



Largest spurs 1 ft. long : flower-buds as big as mus- 

 tard seeds (white): bunches, 1 in. 



Shoots topped at one joint above fruit. If a lateral 

 is produced, it is topped beyond one leaf: if it 

 break again, top it again beyond one leaf. 



In dull days, when the weather is cold, and there is 

 not sunsiiine, give a little air, keeping the temper- 

 ature at 74°. 



Dung on the border nearly cold. 



The flowers of one bunch (near the hot pipes) ex- 

 panded : the first that have been. 



The vines in flower generally. 



Began to thin a bunch or two. 



Was thinning all day (at the top of the house). 



The berries of all set now: those of the Hamburgh 

 as large as hazel nuts ; those of the Old St. Pe- 

 ter's the size of peas of the early frame kind. 

 For the sake of the Dutch Sweet-water, main- 

 tained 76°, instead of 74°, the proper temperature 

 for the Hamburgh. After shutting up at night 

 the tan pit is forked sometimes, and sprinkled 

 every night. The pipes are sprinkled at least 

 eight times in twenty-four hours. 



Begin to give air always when the temperature is 

 4° above that of the night heat. 



Dung, leaves, &c., cleared off the border, to admit 

 sun heat. &c. : the border forked over. 



Finished shouldering the Hamburg, and thinning 

 the Sweet-water and St. Peter's (neither of the 

 two latter wants shouldering much). AH spurs 

 tied to wires; laterals cut clean out; bunches 

 supported. 



Sweet-waters discovered to be changing color for 

 ripening. 



