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shifting into larger pots before May or Juue, when 

 the plants may be moved into 24' s, in which they 

 may remain through the season, in any house or pit 

 in which room can be found for them, paying atten- 

 tion to watering, tying up, &c. They may be stop- 

 ped when two or three feet high ; and when the wood 

 is fully ripened, removed out of the house, and 

 plunged in any material out of doors that is a non- 

 conductor of heat. In February, or March, cut these 

 plants down to two or three eyes, shake them entirely 

 out of the pots, and place them in similar sized pots 

 to fruit in as the former ones, taking care to spread 

 their roots (in potting) regularly through the soil, 

 that when the growth commences, each spongelet 

 may be in immediate contact with food; this is a 

 much better practice than placing them in a pot with- 

 out disturbing the ball, as is often done. The same 

 routine of management must be followed with these 

 through the- season, as recommended for the others. 

 From the larger amount of organisible matter the 

 vine possesses by this mode of treatment, they will 

 generally be found stronger than those raised the 

 same year, and they possess the advantage of ripening 

 their wood earlier in the summer. (Gard. Chron. 

 1844, 212.) 



The next consideration is the time when you wish 

 your grapes to ripen ; this being ascertained, it is 

 easily known when forcing ought to commence. It 

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