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little especial care, i. e., cutting a part of the cane with 

 each bunch and inserting it in a bottle of water and 

 hanging in a cool, dry cellar. 



Cold Grapery — Any glass house comparatively 

 close, with long sash bars, and space for a border outside 

 or in, may be used with success for this work. The 

 best form is perhaps a lean-to eighteen to twenty feet 

 wide facing the south, with long rafters or sash bars and 

 ventilators at the top and bottom. Strong one-year-old 

 vines are planted in the border outside, with the cane 

 growing through the openings in the wall, as seen in 

 Figure 111. 



The Border — The border should be made about two 

 feet deep, of about the same material used for making 

 the fruit house border, i. e., partly rotted turf, leaf mold, 

 sand, bones, old mortar, etc. It should be well under- 

 drained and the whole texture, when completed, should 

 be light, warm and rich. The first year it need be 

 made only four to six feet wide, each year adding about 

 two feet, until it is fourteen to sixteen feet wide. Fine 

 ground bone and Avood ashes make a good fertilizer if 

 the soil is not too heavy. 



Training the Vine (first year) — At planting the 

 vine is cut back so that one or two buds will come inside 

 of the wall, as seen at a. Figure 111. Only one cane is 

 allowed to grow, and this should make from six to eight 

 feet, but the end be pinched off when it has reached 

 five feet, that the buds and wood may fully mature. No 

 laterals are allowed to grow. If from any cause one of 

 the lateral buds should start into growth, one leaf is 

 allow^ed to unfold, when the cane should be pinched off 

 just beyond it, as shown in Figure 111. The removal 

 of this leaf would cause the bud at its base to grow. 



Summer Care — During the summer little care need 

 be given the border. If properly made it will take 

 care of itself unless it should become flooded, which 



