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vent the topmost eyes breaking. Manure-water may 

 now be applied to cause the buds to swell, and care 

 must be taken to preserve the principal leaves, as they 

 are now performing a most important part in regard 

 to the crop next season. When the wood appears to 

 be turning brown (or ripening), water should only be 

 applied to prevent the vines nagging; the laterals 

 should be taken off, and every means employed to 

 ripen the wood perfectly. Indeed, if it is not con- 

 venient to allow a large admission of air when they 

 are growing, it would benefit them much by removing 

 them to a cool house, where they would have the 

 benefit of more, and a lower temperature at night. 

 By the beginning of September, if the former direc- 

 tions have been followed, the vines will be ripe enough 

 to place out of doors. The north side of a wall is 

 the best place, and the pots should be laid on their 

 sides, and every means taken to throw the plants 

 into a state of rest ; the cultivator will thus find him- 

 self in possession of vines which, for strength and 

 vigorous habits, may justly be mistaken for older 

 plants. If the above mode of obtaining fruiting 

 vines for one year should be thought too troublesome, 

 from the plants requiring bottom-heat during their 

 first stage, the eyes may be planted singly, as before, 

 in 48-pots, and set in any house or pit where there is 

 a little heat ; they will be longer, however, by this 

 method, in developing their roots, and may not want 



