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ON THE MANAGEMENT 
From the time the Vines begin to grow, they will require 
conftant watering, efpecially in dry weather, and more parti- 
cularly in the beginning of the feafon before the roots penetrate 
deep into the border. 
Let a flioot be trained up to each rafter j when the rafter is 
of a competent depth, and bevelled off nearly to an angular 
Doint on the under-fide, the flioot fhould be faftened thereto ; 
but when the rafters are not of a fufficient depth to keep the 
leaves of the Vine from touching the glafs, the beft expedient 
is, to fix iron pins, of about nine inches in length, at proper 
diftances under each rafter. There fhould be a fmall hole,'or 
eye, at the bottom of thefe pins, through which a fmall iron 
rod, or ftrong wire, fhould be fixed, for the fupport of the 
branch. The pins and wires fliould be painted as foon as the 
work is finiflied, as the moifture, which arifes in the Hot- 
houfe, would inffcantly caufe them to rufi: and decay. 
It is not unufual for Vine-plants, raifed in the manner here 
directed, to fhew fruit at one year old. I have often had 
plants that have born many bunches at that age, and have 
fometimes permitted three or four of them to remain on the 
plant, and they have been brought to a tolerable degree of per- 
fedtion ; and that too, even when the plant has grown in a pot 
not more than one foot diameter. But when Vines are planted 
with an intent to furnifli the roof of an Hot-houfe, they fhould 
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