78 THE CULTURE OF THE GEAPE. 



of soap, sulphur, etc.) I generally keep my vines tied 

 horizontally along the front until every bud is in motion. 

 Keep a low temperature in the night, say 45°, till you 

 perceive them all moving ; 15° or 20° higher in the day 

 will do no harm, by sun heat, syringing them morning, 

 noon, and night, and keeping a very humid atmosphere. 

 When the buds are fully broken, tie them up to the roof; 

 you may raise the temperature gradually in the night, up 

 to their time of showing fruit, 8° or 10° ; the same 

 by day, observing to keep up a very humid atmosphere. 

 Syringe lightly, and close your house early in the after- 

 noon. Your vines will now be showing three or four 

 bunches at every eye left at winter-pruning ; by no 

 means leave more than one bunch on each shoot, and one 

 on the leading shoot. My practice is to stop the shoot 

 on the spurs at one eye beyond the bunch, taking off all 

 laterals and tendrils as they appear. The leading shoot 

 must be kept neatly tied up, divesting it of laterals, &c., 

 as for last season, until it reaches the top of the house; 

 j-ou may then stop it, leaving a lateral or two to keep it 

 in check, as well as on each spur, if danger is to be ap- 

 prehended from the breaking of the natural buds. As 

 the}^ approach the time of blooming, raise the night tem- 

 perature gradually to 65° or 6S°, increasing the day tem- 

 perature in the same ratio, keeping the house, when the 

 vines are in bloom, rather dry." After the grapes have 

 set, and are thinned, the temperature of the house is to 

 be, at night, " say 65° ; and 85°, 90°, or 95° in the day, 

 with a very humid atmosphere. 



" If cloudy, cool weather should intervene, keep up a 

 brisk heat, by stirring well your fires early in the morn 



