340 General Notices. 



benefit of more air and a lower temperature at night. By the beginning; 

 of September, if the former directions have been followed, the vines will 

 be ripe enough to place out of doors. The north side of a wall is the 

 best place, and the pots should be laid on their sides, and every means 

 taken to throw the plants into a state of rest; the cultivator will thus find 

 himself in possession of vines which, for strength and vigorous habits, 

 may justly be mistaken for older plants. 



It will be seen, then, that the principles acted on above are, selecting 

 properly matured wood for cuttings — inserting only one eye in each pot 

 to prevent any check to the plant in repotting — placing them at once in 

 the pot in which they are to fruit — exposing them during their growth to 

 the greatest possible amount of light you can give them, taking especial 

 care to have the wood perfectly ripe, and inducing an early state of re- 

 pose. But if the above mode of obtaining fruiting vines for one year 

 should be "thought too troublesome, from the plants requiring bottom heat 

 during their first stage, the eyes may be planted singly, as before, in 48- 

 pots, (No. 2,) and set in any house or pit where there is a little heat ; they 

 will be longer, however, by this metliod in developing their roots, and 

 may not want shifting into larger pots before May or June — when the 

 plants may be shifted into 24s, (No. 4) in which they may remain through 

 the season, in any house or pit in which room can be found for them, pay- 

 ing attention to watering, tyeing up, &c. They may be stopped when 

 two or three feet high, and when the wood is fully ripened, removed out 

 of the house and plunged in any material out of doors that is a non-con- 

 ductor of heat. In February or March cut these plants down to two or 

 three eyes, shake them entirely out of their pots, and place them in simi- 

 lar sized pots to fruit in as the former ones, taking care to spread their 

 roots (in potting) regularly through the soil, that when growth commences, 

 each spongolet may be in immediate contact with food ; this is a much 

 better practice than placing them in a pot wiUiout disturbing the ball, as 

 is often done. The same routine of management must be followed with 

 these through the season, as recommended for the others. From the 

 larger amount of organizable matter the vine possesses by this mode of 

 treatment, they Avill generally be found stronger than those raised the 

 same year, and they possess the advantage of ripening their wood earlier 

 in the summer. It will depend on the means the cultivator has at his dis- 

 posal which plan he follows. 



The next consideration is the time when you wish your grapes to ripen ; 

 this being ascertained, it is easily known when forcing ought to com- 

 mence. It may be stated that vines under the above-mentioned treatment 

 will be ready for forcing early in November, and consequently will ripen 

 their crop by tlie end of March. As the principal use of vines in pots 

 here are kept to occupy the houses (where vines are planted on the out- 

 side,) during the period that they are inactive, say from November to 

 May, those in pots are generally forwarded in their first stage in any pit 

 or house whose temperature may happen to suit them, and, finally, when 

 the wood of the permanent vines is sufficiently ripened to allow of their 

 being placed outside, the pots are taken in and arranged in their places 

 on shelves put up for the jjurpose; by these means the houses are of far 

 more use than if they remained empty nearly half the year. However, 

 the precise mode in which the vines are to be fruited depends on tlie kind 

 of houses the cultivator has at his command ; a flued pit answers -well ; 



