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roots pretty nearly fill the pot before being transplanted to 

 ground where they are to grow. 



Another plan of growing the plants, is to transplant them 

 once or twice into the soil over the bottom heat in the frame, 

 or in the house soil instead of into pots, at least 6x6 inches 

 apart. When grown in this manner greater care and labor are 

 required for the last transplanting into the place where they are 

 to fruit. This is done by pressing deep into the soil around 

 each plant a short piece of 6-inch stove pipe made smooth and 

 sharp at one end. Then a shovel is pushed beneatii the stove 

 pipe, and the plant and its surrounding soil carried without dis- 

 turbance and planted where it is to grow and then the stove pipe 

 is withdrawn. 



The plants should be from 8 to 10 inches tall, and as stocky as 

 plenty of room will make them, and just beginning to put forth 

 runners, when removed to the soil where they are to fruit. 



If they are to fruit in hot-bed frames, a ditch 18 inches wide 

 and 12 or 15 inches deep, running along the middle of the entire 

 frame, should be filled with bottom heat and covered six inches 

 with fine soil, which should be allowed to get thoroughly warmed 

 through by fermentation and sunlight before receiving the plants. 

 In a heated house no bottom heat like this is necessary. 



From this time on, until large enough to fruit, the principal 

 labor and care will be to keep them suflSciently moist and sufii- 

 ciently warm, giving some air, of course, when the weather 

 is mild. 



One plant to each sash (3 by 6 feet) is sufiiciently thick for 

 fruiting. In a green-house the vines are trained on a trellis, 

 usually made of tarred marline or lathe yarn, about one foot 

 apart, stretched tight on leaning supports. In the hot- bed frames 

 the vines are left upon the ground. 



Fruiting. 



When the plants have attained a vigorous and stocky growth 

 of some three feet or more in length, they may be allowed to 

 begin to fruit. If your vines are in a house now is the time to 

 bring in your bees that they may mix the pollen, which is neces- 

 sary for fruit bearing. If your vines are in hot-bed frames and 



