BLOSSOMING TIME — PRECAUTIONS. 63 



To keep back tlie blossom, nothing more is required 

 tban to continue the water over the vines. 



Flooding is not of so much importance and value in 

 those regions where the frost soon or earlj in the 

 spring disappears, as it is in those parts of the country 

 where it continues up to the last of June. 



[Note — Yines which are "flooded" during the 

 winter, Avhen the water is drawn off from them are 

 tender, and the blossom which such vines put out 

 is sooner injured than that which appears on the un- 

 flooded vines.] 



