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excellent, specially made wire frameworks may be procured 

 for the purpose. It is indisputable that there still exists 

 in the minds of many amateurs a prejudice against any 

 other support than that of sticks, but the wire answers 

 perfectly well, and has the advantage of being to a large 

 degree permanent, since, if proper care is taken in storage 

 after use, it will last for many seasons, and thus come 

 out cheaper in the long run than sticks, except in those 

 districts where good sticks can be bought at low prices. 

 The height of the sticks or the wire, as the case may be, 

 will necessarily vary in accordance with the usual height 

 to which the plants attain in the district. 



Planting Out. When the plants are grown from seeds 

 sown under glass, either in the autumn or the spring, there 

 will come a time, almost invariably in April, when they 

 will have to be put out into their permanent positions. 

 This operation demands both judgment and care judg- 

 ment to know precisely when the plants and the weather are 

 both especially favourable, and care to guard against the 

 possibility of the smallest damage to the roots. One of the 

 commonest objections to sowing in large pots, rather than 

 in small ones, is that unless the entire mass of soil and roots 

 is planted intact, in which case the plants will be far too 

 close together, the roots will assuredly be more or less 

 seriously injured ; but this will not be so, provided that 

 proper care is taken in the process. When all the condi- 



