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liage, (which carefully examine), the house should 

 be strongly fumigated once or twice; which indeed 

 should be done as a preventive, whether they be vi- 

 sible or not. 



The plants should now be carefully pruned of all 

 superfluous laterals, tendrils, and decayed leaves, as 

 directed in April, which see; and in order that the 

 sun and air may have the freer access to the fruit, 

 a large proportion of the foliage on the stubs, or 

 short shoots on which the clusters hang, should be 

 thinned off. And even, if the summer shoots have 

 not been trained on an under trellis, (see April), a 

 part of the leaves on them may be thinned ofFj 

 that is, such as closely shade the bunches. 



Air should now be admitted more freely than 

 heretofore, in order to give the fruit flavour ; for on 

 this, and on the withholding of w^ater, as advised 

 above, that matter entirely depends. 



If the weather be dry and hot, flre-heat may not 

 be necessary ; but if cold and damp, a little fire 

 should still be made at night. In continued damp 

 weather, a little fire may even be made in the morn- 

 ings, in order to prevent the berries from mould- 

 ing ; and in the case of the weather being such, air 

 should not be admitted ; as moist air might induce, 

 rather than prevent mouldiness. 



In this state of the weather, examine the clus- 

 ters carefully, often, and pick out all rotten berries; 

 as, if this be not done, the bunches will suddenly 

 be spoiled. In this case, too, and particularly in 

 later forcing of grapes, wlien the fruit fall to be 



