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ON TllE MANAGEMENT 



In pruning, observe to take off the shoots with 

 a clean sloping stroke, about half an inch above 

 the eye. Make choice of a bold eye to terminate 

 the end of the shoot. After pruning, let the 

 Vine-shoots be completely fastened to the rafters, 

 &c. and thus ends the business for the first season 

 after planting. 



Vines growing in pine-stoves constantly begin to 

 shoot early in the month of January : at that 

 season they generally make weak shoots, and show 

 small bunches ; and this proceeds from the house 

 being kept warm at that season, on account of the 

 early crops of cucumbers, kidney-beans, &c. which 

 are raised in most hot-houses. But when a hot- 

 house is kept to a proper degree of heat required 

 for pines, during the winter months, the Vines 

 will seldom begin to push till about the middle of 

 February. It is usual to see Vines in pine-stoves 

 push only at two or three eyes at the extremity of 

 the shoots. These two or three new shoots taking 

 the lead, the rest of the eyes below will remain 

 in a dormant state, and cause a long space of 

 naked wood. In order to make the eyes push 

 more generally, it will be proper, as soon as the 

 sap appears in motion, to keep the house, for a 

 short time, a few degrees warmer than usual, viz. in 

 the morning the thermometer should be five or six 

 degrees above temperate, and in the daytime the 

 house should be kept as warm as the weather will 

 permit: it will also be necessary to guard that 

 part of the stem of each Vine, which is on the 



