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light ; the pits to be thrown out accordingly, of a 

 large size, and half filled again with fine rich earth ; 

 if vegetable mould, so much the better. 



Plants made from cuttings, that have been two 

 seasons in pots, and have been properly treated, and 

 trained to a single shoot, are to be preferred. The 

 shoot of the first year should have been headed 

 down to within six or eight inches of the pot, and 

 that of last season, to four, or at most five eyes, in 

 November ; or it may now be headed so, if not yet 

 done. The plants should have been fresh potted, 

 into good earth, last season, and should be now in 

 pots of nine or ten inches diameter, well rooted, and 

 healthy. Such plants are much to be preferred to 

 those raised from layers, that are seldom well root- 

 ed, and never grow so freely as plants raised from 



cuttings. 



Let them be carefully turned out of the pots, re- 

 ducing the balls a little, and singling out the matted 

 roots. Then place them in the pits, just as deep in 

 the earth as they were before, carefully spreading out 

 the fibres, and filling in with fine sifted earth, or with 

 vegetable mould. Settle all with a little water ; and 

 let them have plenty of free air every day, defend- 

 ing them from very severe frost or much wet ; 

 which is all the care they will require, till they be- 

 gin to push young shoots. 



Of forcing established plants in the Grape-house. 



Those who have two or three grape-houses gene- 

 rally begin to force the earliest by the first of the 

 year, and sometimes even in November or Decem- 



