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mottle it. Air is given plentifully after the first week. The 

 svringe is used freely every evening, when the house is closed. 

 AVater is c^iven at tlie roots as required ; sometunes they go a 

 fortnic^ht without a single drop more than falls upon the leaves 

 and the soil from the syringe ; or during hot dry weather they 

 may need to be well watered at the roots two or three times a 



Here the story should end. But it may be well to add that 

 abundance of room is allowed amongst the vines; that the crop 



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is severely thinned throughout the season; that m spite of 

 severe thinning the produce is enormous and constant, so that 

 the spectacle presented by the house when the vines are m lull 

 bearincr calls forth exclamations of surprise, not only Irom tlie 

 uninitiated, but from experienced practical, Yet one word 

 more. Seasons diiier immenselj, and we have always adapted 



