GU.U'KS. ^i 



push these lateral eyes into shoots like the former ; but 

 this will be the means of preserving all the lower eyes, 

 which would otherwise have been converted into branches. 

 When the plants have nearly finished their summer's 

 growth, the middle or towards the end of September, 

 all the laterals which had before been shortened only, 

 should be cut off close to the stem, which will not only 

 give strength to the buds, but admit the sun so as to 

 ripen the wood the more perfectly. When the growth 

 is complete, those eyes which had been converted into 

 branches at the extremity, being useless, may now be 

 dispensed with, and the stem may be headed down to 

 the first sound bud, and the plant will be complete. 



In raising vines from cuttings, those which are fur- 

 nished with two eyes each will be sufficiently long for 

 the purpose ; the lower part should be transversely cut 

 close to the bud. They should be planted singly in 

 small pots, filled with good mould, leaving the upper eye 

 rather below the surface than above it. The pots should 

 be placed either in the stove or in a hotbed, early in 

 February, allowing the plants room as they advance in 

 height, and shifting them into larger- sized pots when 

 they have filled the first with roots. As the spring ad- 

 vances they may be removed into the stove, and from 

 thence to the greenhouse, keeping them neatly tied up 

 to stakes, and allowing them plenty of air to prevent 

 their being drawn up weak. Vines raised from single 

 eyes require the same management as those from cut- 

 tings, beginning only with a smaller-sized pot, and re- 

 moving them into others as they acquire strength and 

 require room. Those raised from cuttings, as well as 

 these, should be kept under glass throughout the sum- 

 mer. A judicious application of liquid manure, during 

 the summer months, would considerably promote the 

 growth of both. 



