BLOSSOMING TIME — PRECAUTIONS. 63 



To keep back the blossom, notbing more is recLuired 

 than to continue tbe water over the vines. 



Flooding is not of so mucb importance and value in 

 those regions where the frost soon or early in the 

 spring disappears, as it is in those parts of the country 

 where it continues up to the last of June. 



[Note — ^Vines which are "flooded" during the 

 winter, when the water is drawn off from them are 

 tender, and the blossom which such vines put out 

 is sooner injured than that which appears on the un- 

 flooded vines.] 



