. The grape vine: its culture, uses, and history. ourth horsedung; from the linings of tin-pine pits select the most decayed parts of the manure. 118 Allow the shoots to run to the extent of thirteen eyes,and then stop them. By the middle of Septemberthe wood becomes ripened, and then prune them backto the ninth eye, and remove them from the pineryto the open air, setting them under a south wall, onbricks placed edgeways, so as to admit free the first of November take in the required potsfor forcing; after they are washed with soft soap andsulphur. After all the eyes have shown fru
. The grape vine: its culture, uses, and history. ourth horsedung; from the linings of tin-pine pits select the most decayed parts of the manure. 118 Allow the shoots to run to the extent of thirteen eyes,and then stop them. By the middle of Septemberthe wood becomes ripened, and then prune them backto the ninth eye, and remove them from the pineryto the open air, setting them under a south wall, onbricks placed edgeways, so as to admit free the first of November take in the required potsfor forcing; after they are washed with soft soap andsulphur. After all the eyes have shown fruit, selectfrom six to eight of the best bunches to remain, andpluck off the others, never allowing one eye to bearmore than one bunch. Syringe the vines gently withwarm water three times a week, and water them withthe liquid manure. Should they, however, occasionallyrequire more moisture, give them nothing more thansoft water about milk warm. Mr. Burns fruits an-nually from 100 to 120 vines, taking in after the firstfifty the rest in 119 The preceding sketch represents a transverse sectionof the vinery, with bed for tree leaves to decay andheat; framework for the support of front trough,sixteen inches wide at top, and ten inches deep, andthe wire under the rafters on which the vines aretrained. (United Gard. and Land Stewards Jonrn.) Preparation for Forcing.—Mr. Arkwright provedthat vines, of which the wood and fruit have ripenedlate in one season, will vegetate late in the followingseason, under any given degree of temperature ; andMr. Knight has shewn the converse of this proposi-tion to be equally true ; the plants under each differ-ent mode of treatment requiring a period of rest,during which they regain their expended Verdelho vine, growing in a pot, was placed in thestove early in the spring, where its wood became per-fectly mature in August. It was then taken from thestove, and placed under a north wall, where it re-mained till the end of No
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