24 YOUNG VINES FOR PLANTING. 



inches or more than 18 inches. I have found a com- 

 post the same as that recommended for the borders 

 answer admirably for vines in pots. When potted, 

 they should for a few days be shaded, as the roots must 

 suffer more or less in the process, and are not prepared 

 to supply the foliage with the needful sap to resist the 

 demands made upon it by a powerful sun. In March 

 or April the temperature and general treatment as to 

 airing should be the same as what will be recommended 

 for the first year they are planted out in the border. 

 Whether vines are intended for fruiting in pots, or 

 planting out the following season, as soon as they are 

 6 feet high they should be cut back to 1 foot, when 

 they wi]l start afresh and make much finer and more 

 fruitful canes than if allowed to grow on ; the laterals, 

 as they appear, should be stopped at one joint. These 

 laterals will break again, and should be pinched, so as 

 to leave another joint. The best position for such vines 

 to grow in is in the full blaze of the sun. I have grown 

 them trained up under the rafters of a pine-pit, and 

 found them prove very fruitful, and also against the 

 back wall of a pine-stove ; but they will do well in any 

 situation where they can have vinery or pine-stove heat, 

 be regularly watered, have the full influence of the sun, 

 and be kept free from red spider. When the canes 

 become brown, and all the symptoms of ripening show 

 themselves, the whole of the lateral branches may be 

 cut off, care being taken not to injure the leaves that 

 spring from the main stem, as their office is to fill out 

 the buds that are to show the young bunches of fruit 

 next season. When fairly ripened say in September 

 and the leaves are getting an autumn tint, they may 



