20 BRIGHT ON GRAPE CULTURE. 



cellar or shed, where they will be protected from frost 

 and mice — first cutting the canes down to two inches 

 This concludes the first year's treatment. 



SECOND YEAR GROWING CANES FOR EARLY FORCING. 



Pot vines selected for early forcing, should be brought 

 into a temperature of 40° to 45°, about the first of Feb- 

 ruary. First soak the whole contents of the pot in 

 good, moderately strong, clear manure water, setting 

 the pot for two hours in a tub partly filled with such a 

 solution — the drainage of a barn-yard or manure heap, — 

 or prepared by stirring up some well rotted manure in 

 water, and dipping oif the clear liquid when it has set- 

 tled. The decomposition of the manure is hastened, 

 and the solution is improved by the addition of a small 

 quantity of potash or wood ashes, say half a pound of 

 potash or half a peck of ashes to one hundred pounds of 

 manure. 



Increase the temperature to the first of March, about 

 10°. Water sparingly, merely to keep the soil moist, 

 till the vines break shoots two or three inches long, 

 which will be about the first of April. 



SHIFTING POTS. 



Now shift the vines from seven to eleven inch pots, 

 making slight but well secured drainage, and fill- 

 ing the pot with properly prepared soil. Good, turfy. 



