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of sheep's or deer's dung, and fresh horse-droppings, 

 rlned by a lump of fresh lime, drawn off clear, and 

 when used diluted with equal parts of rain water. A 

 very weak solution of guano is beneficial, but great 

 caution is required in using it. It is astonishing, 

 during the period of active growth, what an immense 

 quantity of dung-water vines will take. If the dung- 

 water is properly cleared and diluted, it may be given 

 twice for fresh water once ; when the grapes are fully 

 swelled and beginning to colour, water must be more 

 sparingly applied, using clean water only. The 

 flavour of grapes is often spoiled by being over- 

 watered when ripening their fruit, by the proportion 

 of carbon and water, which constitutes the saccharine 

 matter in grapes, being destroyed, and water formed 

 in excess. When the fruit is ripe, if the house is 

 wanted for other purposes, the plants may be re- 

 moved to any dry house or room, where the grapes 

 will keep until wanted. The varieties Mr. Spencer 

 finds best for early forcing in pots are, the Ham- 

 burgh, Dutch Sweet-water, and Muscadine. The 

 small-berried varieties, as the Esperione and others, 

 are hardly worth growing, compared with the above. 

 Muscats, and all the delicate sorts, as the Frontignan, 

 answer admirably later in the season, and thus the 

 amateur, and those who possess but a small extent of 

 glass, may cultivate all the varieties of grapes pro- 

 curable in British nurseries, at but a trifling addi- 

 tional expense. Where the cultivator prefers boxes 



