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wood thorouglily, yet not withholding water so as at any time to 

 cause the leaves to flag. Copious waterings are very apt to cause 

 the vine to start into a second growth, which must be avoided. 



When the vine is full ripened, the pot should be plunged 

 into the border in some spot where it will not interfere with the 

 roots of the vines growing there, inserting the pot to a depth of 

 six inches below the surface. The cane should be cut down and 

 covered with some bits of old carpeting, or, if preferred, may be 

 wound with straw. 



In the spring, when the vines in the border are started, those 

 in the pots should be taken out of the border and cut back to 

 five feet in length, and the canes bent over and syringed, and 

 treated in aR respects as the other vines in the vinery. When 

 the buds are all evenly broken, the cane should be tied to the 

 stake in the pot, in an upright position, the shoots pinched in, 

 leaving one leaf beyond the last bunch of fruit, and kept pinched 

 in each time it starts. Water with manure-water twice a week, 

 as was done last year, beginning with a weak preparation, and 

 increasing in stength until the fruit is well colored. Only one 

 bunch of grapes should be left on each shoot, and not more than 

 five pounds on the vine, ,> 



The Black Hamburgh is the best variety for pot culture, and 

 •we advise amateurs to confine themselves to this alone untU they 

 have had some experience, and attained some skill in the man- 

 agement of pot vines, and then they may try their hand on such 

 other sorts as they wish, with much greater probabilities of suc- 

 cess. 



THE BLACKBERRY. 



But little attention has been paid to the cultivation of this 

 fruit within the Dominion. The first variety that was sent out, 

 known as the New Rochelle or Lawton, proved to be too tender 

 to endure our climate, and the later introductions have not been 

 very widely disseminated. 



A deep, dry and rich soil is most favorable to the growth of 



