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It is intended to reijlace tliem with others as soon as the present 
crops are oft', which will be about July, the other part are as dwarf 
standards in a vinery ; care must be taken that they are not kept too 
hot at starting, for on this in a great measure depends the breaking 
or swelling of the buds. Some of my plants are what may be tenned 
short jointed, having from fourteen to twenty buds in the length of 
four feet, each bud shewing from one to three hunches ; nothing 
more is requisite during their growth thanstoping (first allowing the 
bunches to appear) and regular attendance with air and water ; liquid 
manure is occasionally given after the berries are set, but not many 
times during the season, if too much be given it has a tendency to 
intoxicate them ; the saucer must always be dry before more water 
is given ; the water should be poured upon the soil, so that it may 
filter through, this system may appear somewhat troublesome, but 
the labour will be scarcely perce^^tible as it all goes in the regular 
routine of business, and rather than make it a toil, I should call it a 
pleasure. 
I. Smith. 
Snelson Gardens, March 2(ith, 1832. 
P. S. Where there is the convenience of a very small hothouse, 
one or two crops of grapes may annually be gi'ovvn, the pots and 
plants together taking up but very little room ; six or seven plants 
will stand in a length not exceeding 12 feet, and might, without in- 
terfering with other plants, stand entire upon a shelf placed at 
the back part of the house, leaving sufficient height between the 
shelf and glass. 
ARTICLE III. 
ON LIQUID MANURE.— By Mr. Stafford. 
Perhaps more gardeners leave their situations through contention 
with their employers or their farming -bailiffs respecting manure, 
than from all other causes put together ; what I intend here to in- 
troduce, being the result of my own personal experience, I hojje, in 
some measure, to extricate the gardener from apart of this difficulty. 
This I shall do by endeavouring to show that, by using liquid 
manure, the cultivator obtains his object with more ease, and at the 
«ame time applies the very food of plants in a prepared state, and all 
