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ON VINERIES. 



THE INFLUENCE WHICH CHANGE OF TREATMENT HAS 

 UPON VINES. 



Although one practical man may succeed another in 

 the same situation, and go on steadily with the vines 

 which his predecessor had to manage, it does not follow 

 that his treatment will be successful. He may make 

 changes which will not suit the vines, until in, a few years 

 they dwindle away to such an extent that they are not worth 

 keeping in the houses or forcing pits, as the case may be. 



I well remember the present Mr. George Cunningham 

 telling that when his father, who was the best grape - 

 grower in the neighbourhood of Liverpool in his day, 

 became by reason of blindness personally unable to 

 prune, and direct the management of his once celebrated 

 vines, they gradually became so weakened in constitu- 

 tion that they had to be pulled up and thrown away. 



I have noticed the same thing happen in numberless 

 instances during my long experience. This is brought 

 about in various ways. Some give the nourishment to 

 vines in a different way from those who have preceded 

 them ; some prune differently, and keep up a different 

 kind of temperature. My advice to all cultivators is, that 

 as soon as the vines begin to go back, or, in other words, 

 to show signs of weakness, root them out and plant fresh 



ones. A gardener should, however, exercise great care 



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