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it is newly watered. I ought to have remarked that 

 the leaves placed on the floor of the vinery may be 

 removed as soon as the grapes are set, and before the 

 second watering. The moment the first berry in the 

 house begins to colour, the supply of air should be more 

 liberal both by night and day, and the moisture less, 

 where high flavour is aimed at. When the grapes are 

 all cut, it is too often the case that the vines no longer 

 receive that attention which they ought till their foliage 

 ripens and falls off in the autumn. Immediately after 

 the grapes are cut, the vines should get a good syring- 

 ing with tepid water to wash off any spider that may 

 be on their foliage, or any dust that may have settled 

 on it The border should have water enough to keep 

 it moist the inside border, I mean; for it rarely occurs 

 that, under any circumstances, an outside vine-border 

 requires water supplied artificially. In very hot sum- 

 mers the mulching of short dung will keep it suffi- 

 ciently moist. All second growths the vines may make 

 should be pinched off at once. If this matter is not 

 attended to, and these after-growths are allowed to go 

 on, the vines, instead of going to rest as they ought, will 

 make a sort of supplementary season's growth, and will 

 assert their right to rest at the period when they 

 should be starting into growth. Many failures' in early 

 forcing may be traced to want of attention to this 

 apparently trifling cause. 



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As will be seen by a reference to fig. 6, the only bud 

 left to produce fruit the following season is the one at 



