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poffible, by expofing it to the weather 

 night and day till the natural feafon 

 brought the plants into flower. 



By this time, it 'was the fir ft of June. I 

 then {hut up at nights 3 and encouraged 

 the growth of* the plants and fruit, by 

 lighting and continuing the fires the whole 

 feafon ; had ripe fruit about the firft of Oc- 

 tober, which, by part being hung up in the 

 fruit room, continued till Chriftmas. ' 



Previous to my introducing Grapes into 

 the pine ftoves; and in order to have a fup- 

 ply of fruit from the month of April to 

 Chriftmas ; I began to force my firft houfe 

 on the i ft of November, my fecond on 

 the i ft of February, and my third I treated 

 in the manner above fpecified. 



The following feafon, I began to force 

 the firft houfe on the ift of October ', and 

 cut grapes on the laft day of March : but, 

 in the night between that and the ift of 

 April, the front flue burft ; by which acci- 

 dent was loft the whole foliage, wood, and 

 about five hundred bunches of Grapes juft 

 coming to maturity. Nothing could be 

 more galling. I inftantly cut down every 

 new flioot to one eye j continued the fame 

 H 3 degree 



