184 THE GRAPE. 
grapes, providing they can succeed with them without 
the expense and trouble of artificial heat. a 
fire-heat is of service, temporarily, there is no actual n 
cessity for it, as, with a well-fitted glass arbor, attention 
to covering in the winter, and not hastening the vines 
into growth in the spring, great results may be accom- 
plished, as I have proved during the last ten years. 
OUT-DOOR CULTURF. 
In the vineyard, and out-door culture generally, the 
vines will now begin to show their fruit, and likewise 
the most suitable branches for next year’s bearing. Con- 
tinue to disbud, or rub out, all that are superfluous. 
Those which are fastened to stakes will require, say two 
of the best lower shoots to be left. A sufficient number 
should be retained upon trellises to fill up all vacancies, 
or furnish branches te be laid in at the distance of eight- 
een inches apart, as fruiters hereafter. Nothing dete- 
riorates the quality of the fruit, or renders it Subject te 
