VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE EARLY GRAPERY, OR FORCING HOUSE. 



FAGK 



Practical skill required, and remarks . . . .77 



Yearly forcing not injurious . . . 79 



Covering for outside borders . . . . .80 



Injury from the roots being in a cold bed ... 80 



Time to prune, and commencing to force . . .83 



Evils of cold drafts of air . . . . .84 



General treatment . . . . . .85 



Watering outside borders, and free ventilation . . 86 



Second early crop . . . . . .87 



Journal of temperature and remarks ... 88 



CHAPTER VIII. 



POT CULTURE. 



Advantages, care required, &c. . . . . 91 



Comparative difference in crop . . . . .92 



How to economise space .... 93 



Suitable vines, compost, and potting . . . .93 



General treatment . . . . . .95 



Management for second fruiting . . . . .96 



Application of liquid manure ... 97 



CHAPTER IX. 



RETARDING HOUSE. 



Objects of the Retarding House . . -, . . 98 



General remarks, and treatment . . ' ^.^ 98 ' 



Caution required in pruning .,. ^ . . j.- . . 101 



How long in the year grapes may be had ..- . . 102 



CHAPTER X. 



LIST OP VARIETIES. 



Remarks on the confusion of kinds <; V ; ' . . . 104 



Exotics, descriptive list - i :r ; '& " .*' . 105 



Cold Grapery, the best kinds for . . . . .112 



Forcing House . . . . . . ' 112 



Retarding House . .113 



