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THE PRACTICAL GARDENER. 



check; which, if it should happen, the progress of the 

 vines would be trifling dtiring the first season. In planting, 

 either at an early or late part of the season, the plants should 

 be carefully turned out of the pots, reducing the ball only 

 sufficiently to disentangle the roots that may have grown in a 

 matted manner round the outside of the balls next the pots. 

 The plants should be placed in the pits made for them just as 

 deep as they were in the pots ; their roots singled out care- 

 fully, and a little well-broken vegetable mould filled in round 

 and among the roots. When thus planted, a little water 

 should be given to settle the mould about their roots. If 

 planted at an early part of the season, they will only require 

 to be protected from severe frosts, or too much wet, till they 

 begin to push young roots. If planted, after they are con- 

 siderably sprung into shoot, they will require a moderate 

 supply of water frequently, and to be shaded from the sun 

 for a few days after planting. 



As the shoots advance, they should be carefully trained 

 into the trellis, allowing only three shoots to remain on each 

 plant, displacing all the others with the finger and thumb. 

 All laterals should be pinched off, except one or two of the 

 uppermost, which should always be left, lest by any accident 

 the leading shoot be injured or broken, and, in that case they 

 may serve for substitutes, although they are never equal to 

 the leading shoot ; gi*eat care should therefore be taken to 

 guard the principal shoots from injury; and, in tying them 

 to the trellis, sufficient room should be left in the ties to admit 

 of another shoot of equal size, with the view of preventing 

 any injury from the swelling of the shoots. 



The two side-shoots left on each plant should be stopped 

 when they advance, the one from five to six, the other from 

 eight or nine feet from whence they spring. The middle or 

 leading shoot should be carefully trained in, as long as it will 

 grow, without stopping. 



Air should be daily admitted in a sufficient quantity, ac- 

 cording to the weather, so that the shoots may not be drawn 

 up weak, and the temperature regulated in the early part of the 

 season to about 65°; but, as the season advances, and the 



