TREATMENT OF VINES FIRST YEAR AFTER PLANTING. 



Where the ultimate object is to have vines brought 

 as early as possible to a state that will bear what is 

 termed early forcing that is, to produce ripe grapes, 

 say, in April they should be planted in February, with- 

 out waiting till they make young wood in the pots, 

 and started with a night temperature of from 35 to 50, 

 rising with sun-heat 15 higher. Let the atmosphere 

 of the house be kept moist by any of the appliances 

 for that end, and let the canes be syringed twice daily 

 with tepid water till the buds burst, after which water 

 in any other form than that of vapour should never 

 touch them, unless, as sometimes happens in very dry 

 summers, like that of 1864, the red spider is more 

 than usually prevalent, when it may be necessary to 

 use the syringe, as directed under the head of "Eed 

 Spider." 



In the case of vines that are to be the permanent 

 ones, every lateral and leaf they produce should be 

 allowed to grow the first season ; by this means a mass 

 of roots will be formed in the border, that in their 

 turn will send up fine strong fruiting-canes the second 

 year. Those that are only the temporary ones, and 

 that are to be fruited the second year, must have their 

 laterals stopped at one leaf, and their leading shoots 

 also stopped when they have grown 10 feet or so. 

 This will plump their fruit-buds, and prepare them for 

 fruiting the second year. As the season advances, and 

 they get foliage developed, the temperature should 

 rise, till in May it has reached 70 by fire-heat at 



