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CULTURE OF THE GRAPE-VINE UNDER GLASS. 



vines are planted inside, there are twelve plants, and they are kept single- 

 stemmed to the top of the house. When pruned the spurs are cut back to 

 one bud. The sorts cultivated are, Black Hamburgh and Dutch Sweet- 

 water. 



The vinery open, the wood ripe, not pruned. We 

 have had two slight frosts. 



The vines pruned; the vinery shut up; no artificial 

 heat applied. 



Vines pared; the loose and rough bark only taken 

 off. 



Tan -pit filled with new tan, (twelve loads). Soil, 

 pathway, &c., kept wet. 



Vines washed with soap-suds by means of a 

 painter's sash-brush, the suds being in a tepid 

 state. 



Vines anointed with a mixture of soft-soap, and 

 black and white sulphur dissolved in warm 

 soap-suds ; the mixture applied to the vines at 

 about 100 of heat. Vines laid down on the 

 tan, and moistened with a fine syringe twice 

 a day. The tan forked every other day. 



Forked the border about 3 inches deep ; laid on 

 turfy loam and old lime mortar about 2 inches 

 deep; then old hotbed dung, well rotted, 2 

 inches ; the roots being near the surface, hav- 

 ing been planted as shallow as possible. 



Walls whitewashed with lime and sulphur. 



Laid leaves on vine border, 1 foot thick ; and fresh 

 hot dung, 1 foot ; protected the above from 

 rains, &c., by reed covers used at other times 

 for pine pits. 



The floor dressed with a coat of road-drift for the 

 sake of sprinkling. 



Fire heat applied, and all the steam that can be 

 raised produced. 



Sprinkling of pipes and pathways performed at all 

 times, for the sake of steam and moisture ; the 

 heat of dung on border, 70. 



Weather favourable ; the nights often 60 or 52, 

 seldom under 40 ; we have had only four 

 frosts, the most intense as low as 26. 



Buds perceived to be swelling ; heat of dung on 

 border 90. 



Cease to syringe vines; the sprinkling of soil, 

 pipes, and path, continued. 



Buds breaking generally ; heat of dung on bor- 

 der, 96. 



Weather wet and windy ; nights, 45 to 50. 



