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as before. I then remove them to pits, where they can be placed as near 

 the glass as required, the temperature being raised to about forty-five de- 

 grees, so as to induce them to push fresh roots. At this period of their 

 growth, I stop all the main shoots, which induces the plants to become 

 bushy. As soon as the young shoots have grown an inch or two in length, 

 I examine the plants carefully, and remove all superfluous laterals, leavino^ 

 those only that are best suited for the desired arrangement of the plant. I 

 then take some hooked pegs instead of sticks, with which I secure the 

 plants, and am thus enabled to grow them to the desired form. Early in 

 March, some of the plants will require to be shifted into larger pots, taking 

 care to keep the balls as entire as possible, and watering immediately after 

 potting ; for, if the plants are allowed to flag, all the efforts of the culti- 

 vator will be entirely blasted. About the middle of April, the plants will 

 require going over again, and thinned out as before, leaving the plants well 

 furnished with vigorous shoots for blowing. I have always found a few 

 waterings with weak liquid manure to be of much benefit to the plants at 

 this stage of their growth. When the weather is warm at this period, a few 

 syringings with water heated to seventy degrees will add much to the health 

 and vigor of the plants. The plants will now begin to throw up their 

 trusses, and ought to be removed to a warm greenhouse, and placed as be- 

 fore, frequently turning the plants, so that they may be uniform in growth, 

 and by no means must get drawn, as then the flower will be thin and weak. 

 Should the weather be very hot at this period, a slight shading will be 

 found of the greatest benefit. When the blooming season is over, I cut 

 the plants down to within three inches of the pot, and, as soon as they have 

 pushed a few inches, they are re-potted, taking care to shake nearly all the 

 old soil from the roots, and planted each in a pot two sizes less than they 

 had been in. By the above attention, I have always been able to obtain 

 plants of the most healthy and vigorous growth, covered with handsome 

 bold trusses of bloom — (Gard. Journ., 1848, pp. 100, 101.) 



Vines. — Who that expects to force grapes early will do all at once ' 

 But when vines are forced a little earlier each year, and you take several 

 years to bring them forward, a little earlier each season, you can in time 

 bring them to any thing ; therefore due regard should be had to doing 

 every thing by degrees. The first year, bring them a month earlier ; the 

 second year, bring them two months earlier ; and so by degrees you may 

 almost reverse the seasons of a house of vines, and keep them up to it as 

 healthily and as regularly as the ordinary vine in ordinary seasons. — {Horl. 

 Mag., 1848, p. 317.) 



Fruit Trees in pots are just the same ; when you have, after repeated 

 forcings, brought them to the season you want, they will come to it as 

 regularly as you can wish, and all you have to do is to provide them proper 

 pot-room, and no more. So far from being the worse for forcing, they are 

 the better for it; they rarely miss making and ripening their wood ; they 

 seldom fail producing plenty of fruit-buds ; and, when set to work at the 

 proper time, seldom fail to produce their regular fruit in season. — {Hort. 

 Mag., 1848, p. 317.) 



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