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A TREATISE ON THE 



CHAPTEE IV. 



CULTURE OF THE VINE IN POTS. 



In selecting the eyes, take none but well-matured ones, and those 

 from the strongest and best ripened wood. Prepare them by 

 cutting immediately under the bud, in a slanting direction, each 

 way, as figured below, leaving three-fourths of an inch of wood 



before and behind the eye. If the vines are required for early 

 bearing the following season, the eyes should be put in before the 

 middle of January ; but if intended to be planted in vine borders 

 or against walls, a later period in commencing will answer equally 

 well. But in either case they should be treated as foUows : — 

 Prepare thirty-two or twenty-four sized pots. Put in them plenty 

 of crocks for drainage, and over them pieces of light rough soil, 

 up to within two inches of the top of the pot, one inch of which 

 fill up with fine leaf and other mould, in equal proportions, 

 adding to the mixture a little silver or other sharp sand. Place 



