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Allow the shoots to run to the extent of thirteen eyes, 

 and then stop them. By the middle of September 

 the wood becomes ripened, and then prune them back 

 to the ninth eye, and remove them from the pinery 

 to the open air, setting them under a south wall, on 

 bricks placed edgeways, so as to admit free drainage. 

 On the first of November take in the required pots 

 for forcing ; after they are washed with soft soap and 

 sulphur. After all the eyes have shown fruit, select 

 from six to eight of the best bunches to remain, and 

 pluck off the others, never allowing one eye to bear 

 more than one bunch. Syringe the vines gently with 

 warm water three times a week, and water them with 

 the liquid manure. Should they, however, occasionally 

 require more moisture, give them nothing more than 

 soft water about milk warm. Mr. Burns fruits an- 

 nually from 100 to 120 vines, taking in after the first 

 fifty the rest in succession. 



