302 Diary of the Cultivation of the Grape Vine 



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Cool, with white frost. 



The month has been a favorable one for the 

 growth of the vines, on account of the few 

 cloudy days. Fires have been lighted to 

 keep up a good temperature ; but allowed 

 to cool down except during a few cold days. 

 Some of the most forward vines now begin 

 to open a few flowers. The border not yet 

 having been dug, it was manured with ten 

 or fifteen pounds of guano, and spaded 

 about six inches deep. 



Vines now growing rapidly, and flowers are 

 open on several of them. Syringed the 

 house, and all the plants for the last time 

 until the fruit is set. Temperature slightly 

 raised, and house closed earlier than usual. 

 A light fire kindled every night. 



Cool frosty morning. Vines looked over care- 

 fully, and all shoots tied in regularly, cut- 

 ting ofl" any superfluous ones, and thinning 

 out the bunches of fruit where more than 

 two small ones, or one large one, appear on a 

 spur. All the vines are now in full bloom, 

 except Wilmot's Black Hamburgh. The 

 main shoots, having all reached the top 

 of the house, have been stopped, but the 

 laterals allowed to continue their growth 

 for the present. 



Cloudy, wind E. 



