434 THE FORCING GARDEN. [[NOV. 



With respect to the little standards planted in the 

 border, they will require no other pruning than be- 

 ing divested of cross and water-shoots; as if they be 

 much pruned, it will have the effect of causing 

 them to push wood, a thing not at all to be desired. 

 We rather wish them to remain dwarfish, and to be 

 fruitful. 



After pruning, let all the plants, and likewise the 

 trellises, be carefully anointed, as directed above 

 for the other cherry-house. Then dress in the 

 shoots and branches, and fork up the border in the 

 same manner. The house should now be exposed 

 night and day, only shutting up in the time of 

 much rain. 



If there be a good appearance of fruit in the 

 house, and if the plants have generally made pretty 

 good wood, it may be gently forced from the be- 

 ginning or middle of February next year : and the 

 following years from the first of January, in the 

 same manner as the house above treated of through- 

 out this season. 



THE GRAPE-HOUSE. 



Of the new planted Grape-House. 

 About the middle or end of the month, it will be 

 proper to prune the vines in this compartment, it 

 being presumed, that if they have been aided by 

 fire-heat the two preceding months (as advised), the 

 wood will now be sufficiently ripened, and the plants 

 be quite fit for pruning. But for full remarks on 

 this subject, see the Grape-House for October. 



