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After planting, give a good watering, in order that the 

 sand may be thoroughly settled. After this, avoid ex- 

 tremes of moisture or dryness. Maintain a steady bot- 

 tom-heat of about seventy degrees, never allowing a 

 variation of more than ten degrees either above or be- 

 low this point. Keep the temperature of the house below 

 sixty degrees at night, not allowing it to rise above sev- 

 enty degrees in the daytime if this can be done. A uni- 

 form observance of these simple conditions will command 

 certain success. The tables will become an unbroken sheet 

 of green. The length of time they are to remain in the 

 beds will depend somewhat upon the after-treatment. It 

 is the custom of some propagators to pot all the cuttings, 

 and place them upon tables in succession-houses, giving 

 them heat, and securing an early start. Stronger vines 

 can be grown in this way, as they can be established in 

 pots in the genial atmosphere of a house with more vigor 

 than in any other way. A gain of weeks, or even months, 

 of time in the spring, may also be made by shifting into 

 larger pots, if desired, in the case of new and choice va- 

 rieties ; but this plan involves too much labor, expense, 

 and space of glass, to be practised on a large scale. 

 Should it be decided to pot the cuttings, they will be in 

 condition as soon as it is found that the roots are well 



