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and a few oak posts support the lights, which are hooked 

 on, and can be taken off and stored when not required. 

 The same principle, i.e. the gas-piping and the lights 

 with hooks, will make a very cheap and efficient glass 

 coping for walls. 



PLANTING AND PRUNING VINES 

 PROM POTS 



The most preferable seasons for planting vines from 

 pots are in October and November or in March, the 

 latter to be preferred, and if vines can be placed in a 

 cold vinery or under a garden frame till their young 

 shoots are two inches long, they had better be planted 

 in April, as they seem to start with greater freedom 

 when their young shoots have commenced to grow. The 

 mode of planting as practised here is simply to mark 

 out a piece of ground 3 feet square at the end of 

 fig. 22, and to dig it 2 feet deep, mixing with the soil, 

 in digging, a coat of manure from four to five inches 

 thick, placed on the surface before digging ; the vine 

 should not be planted under the glass, but outside, at 

 one end ; it should at once be pegged down with two or 

 three hooked pegs thrust into the earth through the 

 interstices between the slates in the centre of the floor. 

 If vines from the open ground are selected, they should 

 be planted early in March, and cut down to two eyes ; 

 if strong vines from pots are planted, they should have 



