STATE POMOLOQICAL SOCIETY. IH 



upright windows to protect the glass from the snow. Afterwards 

 open the house occasionally when too hot. 



In the following spring, as warm weather approaches, open the 

 house on warm days to prevent the buds pushing too early, for 

 when once started they must not receive a check. About the 

 middle of April, uncover the vines and remove the leaves from the 

 inside border, and thoroughly saturate it with water poured upon 

 the surface manure. Let the vines remain on the ground, and 

 sprinkle them daily until the buds uniformly swell, then sling 

 them loosely to the wire trellis, further from the glass at first, to 

 avoid their being affected by late frosts. 



In May remove the coursest manure from the border and fork in 

 the remainder. The same process in respect to watering and 

 ventilation throughout the second year as the first, and the same 

 directions in respect to pruning and bearing, apply as those given 

 in the case of the open culture of the vine. Spurs now grow from 

 the main cane, and some show fruit, but all bunches must be 

 promptly removed except one or two on a vine, lest it be over- 

 borne and permanently weakened. Tie the main canes to the wire 

 trellis with strong listing and the spurs with bass matting. 



When the fruit is in blossom keep the house more closed and 

 warm. After the fruit has set, pinch off the spurs four leaves be- 

 yond the bunch, and all the spurs not bearing, eight leaves from 

 the cane. As soon as the berries attain the size of peas, tie up 

 the shoulders with bass matting and cut out half the berries, par- 

 ticularly the smallest, with a sharp-pointed grapery scissors, and 

 remove the laterals of the spurs between the bunch and cane, and 

 all the tendrils, and pinch off the other laterals at one leaf, except 

 the terminal, which may be shortened afterwards. If before ripen- 

 ing, any berries crack, remove them lest they cause decay to 

 others by contact. 



On the 20th of June and 1st of August sprinkle two pounds of 

 flour of sulphur about the grapery when the house is hot and dry, 

 to prevent mildew, and let it fall in the foliage if any mildew is 

 discovered. About the middle of August some of the fruit begins 

 to color, then discontinue the sprinkling and the watering with 

 guano, and subsequently with soap suds in the ripening of the 

 fruit, except for those vines whose berries have not yet colored, 

 to whose roots on the outside it may be applied on dry mornings. 

 Keep the house dry and well ventilated and pinch off the upper 



