. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE yiXE AXD ITS FEUIT. 307 prevent the condensation of moisture, a chink of air lit the back and front of the house should be kept on all night, unless the weather is frosty, and the proper temperature cannot be maintained. Some gTape-growers fertilise their grapes by giving the vines a sharp rap with the hand to set the pollen at Hberty; others trust to the natui-al energy of their vines and a brisk buoyant atmo- rphere; while others draw the hand Hghtly down the bunches when they are in fiower, but this is a bad practice, as the pressure and moistur
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. THE yiXE AXD ITS FEUIT. 307 prevent the condensation of moisture, a chink of air lit the back and front of the house should be kept on all night, unless the weather is frosty, and the proper temperature cannot be maintained. Some gTape-growers fertilise their grapes by giving the vines a sharp rap with the hand to set the pollen at Hberty; others trust to the natui-al energy of their vines and a brisk buoyant atmo- rphere; while others draw the hand Hghtly down the bunches when they are in fiower, but this is a bad practice, as the pressure and moisture, how- ever slight, often injure the embryo berries, notably of Muscats, which show a small brown spot at the points when they are ripe. TMrming. — The art of thinning gi'apes well cannot be properly acquired without practice and a thorough ac- quaintance, not only with the different sections, but also with particular xvaes of the same variety. Take as an example the numerous vaiie- ties grown under the name of Hamburgh. Some produce loose bunches of medium-sized berries which require mode- rate thinning; others produce heavy - shouldered bunches, which set thickly, and pro- duce large, short - stalked, hammered hemes, half as large again as the fu'st. Both are called Hamburghs, but directions for thinning the first would not apply to the second, and vice versa. Lady Downes, Alicante, and Gros Colmar are three late kinds, which require totally distinct thinning to insure perfect clusters when they - are ripe. "When thoroughly acquainted with the peculiarities and capabilities of different houses of vines, a good practical hand can thin to a beny; but as no amoxmt of writing can convey that ex- perience, the subject must be here confined to general principles. ITie best time to thin is as soon as ail fi-ee-setting kinds are out of fiower. and the beriies approach the size of Xo. 1 shot. !>ruscats and shy-setting kinds should be allowed to get a little more advanced, a
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