CII. 5.] GRAPES* 83 



About the ift of March, let a bed, in all 

 refpeds the fame as that which is recom- 

 mended for afparagus, (See page 1 1), be pro- 

 vided; obferving to lay a few inches more of 

 old tau on the furface, and of a fize corre- 

 ponding with the number of cuttings requi- 

 red. Take garden-pots about fix inches in 

 diameter, and the fame in depth ; fill them 

 with entire vegetable mould of decayed 

 tree-leaves ; place two cuttings in each, fo 

 deep as to cover the undermoft eye an inch ; 

 and plunge them to the brim in the tan. 

 Cover at night with mats, if necefiary; 

 admit plenty of air, in good weather, 

 through the day ; and refrefli duly with 

 well aired water. 



The plants will grow a-pace : and, to 

 their encouragement, let the bed be lined, 

 whenneceflary; and as the (hoots approach 

 to the glafs, let the frame be raifed with 

 bricks, &c. that they may have full room 

 to extend. By the time they have made 

 (hoots to the length of five or fix joints, 

 they will require frefh potting j and muft 

 be put, fingly, into pots of nine or ten 

 inches in diameter, being filled with half 

 Vegetable arid half melon or cucumber 

 F 2 mould, 



