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GARDENING FOR BEGINNERS 



well watered whenever the soil appears dry. When the wood begins to 

 ripen gradually decrease the moisture and heat, and increase the amount 



of air, until finally the ventilators 

 are kept open night and day. The 

 border must not be allowed to be- 

 come dry during winter, for the 

 roots of the Vine are alive and 

 require nourishment. Naturally 

 they will not absorb so much water 

 as when the Vines were in full 

 leaf, but to let the soil of the 

 border get quite dry is fatal. In 

 the winter following, if the Vine 

 has grown vigorously and become, 

 *ay, as thick as one's thumb, the 

 cane may be left about four feet 

 long. If, however, it is somewhat 

 weak, shorten it again. Presum- 

 ing, however, that the Vine has 

 succeeded well enough to be left 

 four feet long at the second winter 

 pruning the cultivator may expect 



to have two or three bunches of Grapes the following summer. The 

 apex of the young cane will now reach some little distance along the 



VINE. 



SHOWING METHOD OF 

 PLANTING 



FIRST STAGE IN TYING DOWN VINE SHOOT 



wire trellis suspended about eighteen inches away from the roof. Hub 

 off all the buds upon the stem of the young Vine, beginning with the 

 lowest, to within the two below the trellis, for if shoots were allowed to 



