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In places where a hot-house, or Vine-wall and 

 border have been previously provided, and- are in 

 readiness for the plants, it would be advisable to 

 plant the Vines out for good, about the end of 

 June, or beginning of July, as they will make a 

 good progress after this season in the same year. 

 But in new works, it is almost impossible to get 

 the building and border ready to receive the plants 

 the first summer, as the border will require a com- 

 petent time to be worked over, to meliorate, and 

 to settle ; therefore my directions will, principally, 

 relate to such plants as are kept in pots through 

 the first winter. I the more strongly recommend 

 this mode of practice on another account, which 

 is, that as so much depends on the preservation of 

 the first roots, the plants can be better preserved in 

 pots, which may be set in a green-house, &c. in the 

 winter, than when planted in the open ground, where 

 they will be exposed to the severity of the weather. 



In the months of July and August the young 

 plants will require very little artificial heat. I 

 have sometimes placed them against a common 

 wall during those months, and have found the plants 

 succeed very well. They will, however, by the 

 assistance of a bottom heat, grow faster ; and by 

 being kept in a hot-house, they will make a still 

 greater progress. I have sometimes had plants 

 w r hich have made shoots upwards of twenty feet 

 long in the first summer. But when plants are 

 intended to be kept in pots through the winter, 

 a moderate-sized plant is preferable , because in 



