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better effect in regard to beauty and appearance, 

 than when two or more of the same colour are 

 planted together. p 



The Vines, in general, will begin to shoot im- 

 mediately after they are brought into the hot- 

 house : * only one shoot should be permitted to 

 remain on each plant ; but for fear of an accident, 

 (for young shoots easily break off from the old 

 wood,) it will be advisable to let two remain, till 

 they are grown to a sufficient length to be fastened 

 to the rafters. When one shoot is secure, the 

 other may be taken off, but not close to the old 

 wood, as it would occasion it to bleed, and thereby 

 greatly injure the Vine. 



From the time the Vines begin to grow, they 

 will require constant waterings, especially in dry 

 weather, and more particularly in the beginning 

 of the season, before the roots penetrate deep into 

 the border. 



Let a shoot be trained up to each rafter : when - 

 the rafter is of a competent depth, and bevelled 

 off nearly to an angular point on the under-side, 

 the shoot should be fastened thereto ; but when 



p Mr. Carter, hi his " Journey from Gibraltar to Malaga," 

 gives the following superb account : — " This hill is so full of 

 verdure, that the village, as well as the roads about it, are, in a 

 literal sense, covered, shaded, and crowned with all manner of 

 fruit-trees of a prodigious size ; to whose topmost branches the 

 luxuriant Vine mounts vigorously, and hangs in over-grown 

 clusters, numberless bunches of red, black, and green grapes, 

 which frequently intermixed with the Golden-apple, the Pome- 

 granate, and the Orange, expose a most enchanting picture to 

 the charmed eye," P. 7. 



