84 THE GRAPE. 
When the canes have grown to the top of the roof do 
not stop them, but train the tops between the vines on 
the oppesite side, if the house be a double pitch; and ifa 
lean to, they may be allowed to hang down by the back 
wal), stopping the leader when it has advanced somewhat 
downwards, and leave the laterals on the same length. 
Thus the plants will go on swelling their growth without 
eheck, and adding bulk to their structure. 
‘Vowards the middle of August, the air may be allowed 
become somewhat drier, and syringing overhead gradu- 
ally lessened, as the wood will begin to mature: the lower 
ventilators may also be opened on clear days—a little at 
first, increasing more from day today. By the third week 
in — water should be withheld altogether, and as 
the wood will be ripening, air ought to be freely admitted 
through the a and the temperature decreased as the 
¢anes approach maturity. When the bark becomes brown 
and the wood solid, the house may be thrown open day 
and night, excepting in case of frost or heavy rain, as the 
object now is to let all go quietly to rest, and the leaves 
to fall off yellow and fully ripe, when we may rest as- 
sured that nature has done her work according to her own 
will, and we have assisted her in accordance to her own 
8. 
So soon as the leaves are fallen, proceed to pruning 
If all has gone on as it ought to have done, the canes will 
average five-eighths to nearly one inch in diameter, ac 
_ cording to tothe natural vigor of each individual variety, and 
_ the weakest ae cg poco = out oe point 
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