YOUNG VINES FOR PLANTING. 



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following season, the size should not be less than 8 

 inches or more than 18 inches. I have found a com- 

 post the same as that recommended for the borders 

 answer admirably for vines in pots. When potted, 

 they should for a few days be shaded, as the roots must 

 suffer more or less in the process, and are not prepared 

 to supply the foliage with the needful sap to resist the 

 demands made upon it by a powerful sun. In March 

 or April the temperature and general treatment as to 

 airing should be the same as what will be recommended 

 for the first year they are planted out in the border. 

 They must never be allowed to flag for want of water ; 

 give liquid manure once a-week. Whether vines are 

 intended for fruiting in pots, or planting out the 

 following season, the laterals, as they appear, should 

 be stopped at one joint. These laterals will break 

 again, and should be pinched, so as to leave another 

 joint. When such young vines have their pots full 

 of roots, and attained the height of 6 feet, we have 

 frequently cut them back to one foot, and found they 

 made finer canes than those not so cut back. The 

 best position for such vines to grow in is in the full 

 blaze of the sun. I have grown them trained up un- 

 der the rafters of a pine-pit, and found them prove 

 very fruitful, and also against the back wall of a pine- 

 stove ; but they will do well in any situation where 

 they can have vinery or pine-stove heat, be regularly 

 watered, have the full influence of the sun, and be kept 

 free from red-spider. When the canes become brown, 

 and all the symptoms of ripening show themselves, the 

 whole of the lateral branches may be cut off", care being 

 taken not to injure the leaves that spring from the 

 main stem, as their office is to fill out the buds that 

 are to show the young bunches of fruit next season. 



