MANAGEMENT FOR THE SECOND YEAR, 78 
what is useful; but as this outer and locse bark is virtu- 
ally dead, it is of no further use than protection against 
cold; so that if the vines are carefully covered from ex 
treme frost, there is no harm in taking it o 
The vines may now be washed over with the prepara- 
tion, as advised for last year, and brought down into the 
same horizontal position; and as it is not easy to cover the 
spurs, if wrapped around with straw, the better way is 
to have long narrow boxes, open at the ends, or to 
cover loosely with marzh hay, or evergreen boughs. Let 
the house remain open through the winter, excepting in 
stormy, wet, or very severe frosty weather, and shut up 
the doors at night, ta prevent rats or mice from getting in, 
as they will gnaw the bark, and do much mischief. It is 
a = plan to ke/.p a cat inside. 
eek or twa previous to the leaves falling, fork over 
sea ike cxefnlly, both outside and inside; by doing 
is tise. avy small rootlets which may be unavoid- 
an broke» will have time to heal up before winter sets 
in. When :«vere weather is apprehended, cover over the 
whole zurtace with three or four inches of good stable ma- 
nure, #34 add an RE bag ons og heme: or —< of about 
the same depth to t g, and make 
“ assurance doubly sure.” 
As the general rentine of this season 
ply to all others, se far as the Cold Bian is ee 
it is useless to foliow this part of the subject further, than 
by stating (as we are treating of a set of vines in the first 
hearing), that the average = may be doubled next year, 
according to robustness and health, which will admit of 
ter. to fourteen pounds of grapes being taken off each, pro 
viding all peste ft 1s well to observe the progrese = 
